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"Am I henceforth to live and die on Lady Parham's ample breast?" She sat with one foot beating the floor, deep in meditation. "And shall I tell you what mother said?" shouted Ashe through the door. "Yes."

"Guthrie Parham's taking care of that, and everything's going to be done to ridicule Gardner," Lancedale told him. "And even this business at the store can be turned to some advantage. Before we're through, we may gain more votes than we lose for Pelton.

The Dean had journeyed several times from his distant cathedral town, to see and sit with Kitty; Eddie Helston's flowers had been almost a nuisance; Mrs. Alcot had shown herself quite soft and human. The effect, indeed, of this general sympathy on Lord Parham's relations to the chief member of his cabinet had been but small and passing.

Margaret found her, wandering in the park very wild and pale told her the doctor's verdict, and brought her home. Kitty said little or nothing, and was presently persuaded to change her dress for Lord Parham's arrival. By the time the operation was over she was full as usual of smiles and chatter, with no trace apparently of the mood which had gone before.

The August air was stifling; perspiration shone on the broad brows and cheeks of the farmers sitting in the front half of the audience; Lord Parham's gray face was almost white; his harsh voice labored against the acoustic difficulties of the tent; effort and heat, discomfort and ennui breathed from the packed benches, and from the short-necked, large-headed figure of the Premier.

When Lady Parham talked longer than usual with the French Ambassador, his Austrian and German colleagues wrote anxious despatches to their governments; when a special mission to the East of great importance had to be arranged, nobody imagined that Lord Parham had very much to do with the appointment of the commissioner, who happened to have just engaged himself to Lady Parham's second girl.

"Can you ask Lord Parham to hand me on that paper on the floor," said Ashe, in the ear of the Lord Lieutenant, "it seems to have dropped from my portfolio." The Lord Lieutenant, bending backward behind the chairman as the next speaker rose, tried to attract Lord Parham's attention.

Kitty hesitated then said, with the prettiest, slightest laugh: "Lady Parham has such strong views hasn't she? on Church questions!" Lord Parham's feeling was that a more insidiously impertinent question had never been put to him. He drew himself up. "If she has, Lady Kitty, I can only say I know very little about them! She very wisely keeps them to herself."

The measures for which he was wrestling against the intrigues of Lord Parham and Lord Parham's clique filled all his mind with a lively ardor of battle. They were the children the darlings of his thoughts. Nevertheless, as he entered his wife's dim-lit room the eager arguments and considerations that were running through his head died away.

"Working as hard as usual, Lady Parham?" he asked her, with a smile. "If you like to put it so," was the stiff reply. "There is, of course, a good deal of going out." "I hope, if I may say so, you don't allow Lord Parham to do too much of it." "Lord Parham never was better in his life," said Lord Parham's spouse, with the air of putting down an impertinence. "That's good news.