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Lady Laura had been the Mercury between them on this subject, and Lady Laura had failed. He would not now consent to employ another Mercury. Very little, hardly a word indeed, was said between the Earl and Phineas about politics.
Something snapped, and he seemed to be floating up, up, up, out of the black oblivion of nothingness. He tried to speak, but he knew that he made no sound. "Phineas! Phineas!" The voice was nearer now, so near that it seemed just above him. It sounded like With a mighty effort he opened his eyes; then full consciousness came. He was on the ground, his head in Diantha's lap.
"You have forgotten me, I dare say, but I think we came across one another at a banquet in New York about four years ago." "I remember it perfectly," Phineas Duge answered. "A dull affair it was, but we talked of the Asiatic Powers and kept ourselves amused. Since then, you see, all that I said has become justified." Deane smiled. "They say that with you that is always the case," he answered.
But a member may be so in order as to incur the displeasure of the House, and to merit the reproaches of his countrymen." This little duel gave great life to the debate; but it was said that those two great Reformers, Mr. Turnbull and Mr. Monk, could never again meet as friends. In the course of the debate on Tuesday, Phineas got upon his legs.
But John Halifax would not hear of that. And Ursula she was sitting sewing, while the little one lay on her lap, cooing softly with shut eyes Ursula took my hand to play with Muriel's. The baby fingers closed over mine "See there, Phineas; SHE wants you too." So I stayed.
In another moment all this had vanished, and she was smiling again, not warmly, frankly as before, but with a strange wistfulness that left him more deeply perplexed than ever. "I wonder, " she began, and then shook her head without completing the sentence. After a moment she went on: "Phineas is a long time. I hope all is well."
Just where it all would have ended it is difficult to say had not the automobile itself taken a hand in the game as automobiles will sometimes and played trumps. It was the first day of the county fair again, and Phineas and Diantha were on their way home. Straight ahead the road ran between clumps of green, then unwound in a white ribbon of dust across wide fields and open meadows.
But then when he was drawn on the draft list he came in here and he and I had a long talk. 'Twas yesterday, after you'd told me about bein' put on the Board, you know. I could see the trouble there'd be between you and Phineas and and well, you see, Sam, I just kind of wanted that boy to volunteer. I I don't know why, but " He looked up from his work and stared dreamily out of the window.
And yet there was something sore within her when she thought that Phineas Finn was fond of Violet Effingham. It was Lady Baldock's second evening, and Phineas came to the house at about eleven o'clock. At this time he had encountered a second and a third interview with Mr. Clarkson, and had already failed in obtaining any word of comfort from Laurence Fitzgibbon about the bill.
"There can be no juster object of ambition than a seat in the Cabinet," said Phineas. "Sir, I must dispute that," said Mr. Turnbull, turning round upon our hero. "I regard the position of our high Ministers as most respectable." "Thank you for so much," said Mr. Monk. But the orator went on again, regardless of the interruption:
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