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Until I had had a second interview with Maxwell Hartington I still would not let myself think that it was possible that Mary and I would fail with our explanations. We had the common confidence of habitually unchallenged people that our word would be accepted. I had hoped indeed to get the whole affair settled and abolished without anything of it coming to Rachel's ears.
Gladstone told me that he was giving a dinner to the Liberal party that night, and he added: "'If Hartington is in a good humour, I intend to say to him, "Don't move a vote of want of confidence in me after dinner, or you will very likely carry it." "'He laughed at this, and told me some days after that Lord Hartington had been delighted with the idea.
It was the greatest comfort with Lord Hartington they could always be absolutely certain that he would never, in any circumstances, be either brilliant, or subtle, or surprising, or impassioned, or profound.
Guess they'll all have to git their wimmen-folks to press their clothes to-morrow. Then Duncan wanted to git out again, but 'twan't exactly convenient. Callated he was suffocatin' seemed to need air. Little mite limp when he broke loose, Duncan was." The Honorable Peleg stopped again, as if he were overcome by the recollection of Mr. Duncan's plight. "Er er Peleg!" Mr. Hartington started.
Social influence counts for a great deal in political life in this country, but there was another factor that also counted in favour of Lord Hartington. This was the fact that he could not sit in the House of Commons after his father's death, and that, consequently, if he were chosen, he would be more or less of a stopgap.
Hartington bestowed on the storekeeper a mournful look, and continued: "Never seed Duncan sweatin' before. He didn't seem to grasp why the boys was there." "Didn't seem to understand," put in Mr. Bixby, sympathetically. "'For God's sake, gentlemen, says he, 'let me in! The Truro Bill! 'The Truro Bill hain't in the theatre, Mr. Duncan, says Dan Everett.
"How did you work it?" "Sent Chauncey through the deestrict," said Mr. Hartington. Mr. Chauncey Weed had, in truth, gone through a part of the congressional district of the Honorable Heth Sutton with a little leather bag. Mr. In this way Mr. Bixby's regiment, Sutton was the honorary colonel, had been attacked in the rear and routed.
The old England of order and rational government is past and will not return. Now I should like to see a moderate triumvirate Lord Hartington, Lord Granville, and your husband, with a Cabinet which they could control.
My sense of complete innocence had already been shaken by Maxwell Hartington; I had come to perceive that we had been amazingly indiscreet, I was beginning to think we had been criminally indiscreet. I saw Maxwell Hartington for a second time, and it became clear to me I must abandon any hope of keeping things further from Rachel.
"How did you work it?" "Sent Chauncey through the deestrict," said Mr. Hartington. Mr. Chauncey Weed had, in truth, gone through a part of the congressional district of the Honorable Heth Sutton with a little leather bag. Mr. In this way Mr. Bixby's regiment, Sutton was the honorary colonel, had been attacked in the rear and routed.
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