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Finn refolded the latter letter. "My cousin's wife is a very good woman, but Mary would not be happy with her." "Lady Cantrip is an excellent friend for her." "Excellent. I know no one whom I esteem more than Lady Cantrip." "Would you wish her to go there, Duke?" There came a wistful piteous look over the father's face. Why should he be treated as no other father would be treated?
He had asked Lord Brentford to put his name down, and was not sure whether it had been done. The threat of Mr. Broderick's opposition had been of no use towards the strengthening of his broken back, but the sight of Lord Cantrip hurrying in at the coveted door did do something. "A man can't cut his throat or blow his brains out," he said to himself; "after all, he must go on and do his work.
The life they led was very quiet, and must probably have been felt to be dull by Lady Cantrip, in spite of her old age and desire for retirement. But the place itself was very lovely. May of all the months of the year is in England the most insidious, the most dangerous, and the most inclement. A greatcoat cannot be endured, and without a greatcoat who can endure a May wind and live?
Or for a week or two he might do very well without me. But there are other reasons. There is no one whom your mother respected more highly than Lady Cantrip." "I never heard her speak a word of Lady Cantrip." "Both he and she are your father's intimate friends." "Does papa want to be alone here?" "It is you, not himself, of whom he is thinking." "Therefore I must think of him, Mrs. Finn.
There was a time when Plinlimmon and the Duke could not stable their horses together at all; and don't you remember when Palliser was obliged to give up his hopes of office because he had some bee in his bonnet?" I think, however, that the bee in Mr. Palliser's bonnet to which Lord Cantrip was alluding made its buzzing audible on some subject that was not exactly political.
What right had a gentleman to talk of marriage who had no means? These things she said and very many more, but it was to no purpose. The young lady asserted that as the gentleman was a gentleman there need be no question as to rank, and that in regard to money there need be no difficulty if one of them had sufficient. "But you have none but what your father may give you," said Lady Cantrip.
Lord Cantrip laid down the unwritten traditional law of Government officials very plainly. A man in office, in an office which really imposed upon him as much work as he could possibly do with credit to himself or his cause, was dispensed from the necessity of a conscience with reference to other matters.
Finn had never been cordially accepted by those among whom Lady Cantrip chiefly lived. When therefore the name was announced, the servant expressly stating that the visitor had asked for Lady Mary, Lady Cantrip, who was with her guest, had to bethink herself what she would do. The Duke, who was at this time very full of wrath against Mrs.
For myself I am, well, meaning to speak honestly, I will call myself pretty and smart. I think I know how to be true." "I am sure you do." "But what right have you to suppose I shall know how to be a Duchess?" "I am sure you will." "Now listen to me. Go to your friends and ask them. Ask that Lady Mabel; ask your father; ask that Lady Cantrip. And above all, ask yourself.
Gresham and Cantrip with their own friends can hardly make a Ministry as things are now unless Mr. Monk will join them. I do not think that any other Chancellor of the Exchequer is at present possible." "I will beseech Mr. Monk not to let any feeling as to me stand in his way. Why should it?" "It is not only what you may think and he may think, but what others will think and say.
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