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I will go now, Madame Goesler, as I do not wish to leave the house with Lord Fawn." "But you will come and see me soon." Then Phineas promised that he would come soon; and felt as he made the promise that he would have an opportunity of talking over his love with his new friend at any rate without fresh shame as to his failure. Laurence Fitzgibbon went away with Phineas, and Mr.
"You will be leaving town soon, Madame Goesler?" "Almost immediately." "And where do you go?" "Oh, to Vienna. I am there for a couple of months every year, minding my business. I wonder whether you would know me, if you saw me; sometimes sitting on a stool in a counting-house, sometimes going about among old houses, settling what must be done to save them from tumbling down.
"And do the Lords of the Treasury have to take care of the money?" asked Madame Max Goesler. "Only their own; and they generally fail in doing that," said Phineas. He sat there for a considerable time, wondering whether Mr. Kennedy would come in, and wondering also as to what Mr. Kennedy would say to Madame Max Goesler when he did come in.
"I made a mistake," said Madame Goesler afterwards, "in having four members of Parliament who all of them were or had been in office. I never will have two men in office together again." This she said to Mrs. Bonteen. "My dear Madame Max," said Mrs. Bonteen, "your resolution ought to be that you will never again have two claimants for the same young lady."
There was the name of many a woman written in a black list within Madame Goesler's breast, written there because of scorn, because of rejected overtures, because of deep social injury; and Madame Goesler told herself often that it would be a pleasure to her to use the list, and to be revenged on those who had ill-used and scornfully treated her.
"So glad to see you, my dear," she said, as she pressed her friend's hand: "if I am not killed by this work, I'll make you out again by-and-by." Then Madame Goesler passed on, and soon found herself amidst a throng of acquaintance. After a few minutes she saw the Duke seated in an arm-chair, close to the river-bank, and she bravely went up to him, and thanked him for the invitation.
But the Duke, even should he become ever so childish a child in his old age, still would have that plain green brougham at his command, and could go anywhere in that at any hour in the day. And then Madame Goesler was so manifestly a clever woman. A Duchess of Omnium might be said to fill, in the estimation, at any rate, of English people, the highest position in the world short of royalty.
Then she left him, standing in the middle of the room, depressed by what had occurred, but not thinking of it as of a trouble which would do more than make him uncomfortable for that day. Madame Max Goesler Day after day, and clause after clause, the bill was fought in committee, and few men fought with more constancy on the side of the Ministers than did the member for Loughton.
"I hope not, with all my heart; and I hope that somebody else may, unless somebody else should change his mind. Thank you; I am so much obliged to you. Mind you come and call on me, 193, Park Lane. I dare say you know the little cottage." Then he put Madame Max Goesler into her carriage, and walked away to his club. Lady Baldock Does Not Send a Card to Phineas Finn
Madame Goesler now had dropped the bantering tone which she had assumed, and was speaking in sober earnest. "I, for myself, have nothing about me of which I am ashamed. I have no history to hide, no story to be brought to light to my discredit. But I have not been so born, or so placed by circumstances, as make me fit to be the wife of the Duke of Omnium. I should not have been happy, you know."
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