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'My dear Twemlow, says Veneering, grasping both his hands, as the dearest and oldest of my friends Are you of opinion that your cousin, Lord Snigsworth, would give his name as a Member of my Committee? I don't go so far as to ask for his lordship; I only ask for his name. Do you think he would give me his name? In sudden low spirits, Twemlow replies, 'I don't think he would.
To be sure that was in the days when he hoped for leave from the dread Snigsworth to do something, or be something, in life, and before that magnificent Tartar issued the ukase, 'As he will never distinguish himself, he must be a poor gentleman-pensioner of mine, and let him hereby consider himself pensioned. Ah! my Twemlow!
'I have, my dear Twemlow. 'And you expect me to keep it honourably. 'I do, my dear Twemlow. 'ON the whole, then; observe me, urges Twemlow with great nicety, as if; in the case of its having been off the whole, he would have done it directly 'ON the whole, I must beg you to excuse me from addressing any communication to Lord Snigsworth.
'My political opinions, says Veneering, not previously aware of having any, 'are identical with those of Lord Snigsworth, and perhaps as a matter of public feeling and public principle, Lord Snigsworth would give me his name. 'It might be so, says Twemlow; 'but And perplexedly scratching his head, forgetful of the yolks of eggs, is the more discomfited by being reminded how stickey he is.
Being first cousin to Lord Snigsworth, he was in frequent requisition, and at many houses might be said to represent the dining-table in its normal state. Mr and Mrs Veneering, for example, arranging a dinner, habitually started with Twemlow, and then put leaves in him, or added guests to him.
'But why, madam? Twemlow ventures gently to argue. 'Consider why the very same words? Because they state the fact. Because you HAVE no proof. 'Men are very wise in their way, quoth Mrs Lammle, glancing haughtily at the Snigsworth portrait, and shaking out her dress before departing; 'but they have wisdom to learn.
The awful Snigsworth might taboo and prohibit Fledgely, but the peaceable Twemlow reasons, If he IS my kinsman I didn't make him so, and to meet a man is not to know him.
Why, gentlemen, if I appealed to my honourable friend upon my right, himself among the greatest and most respected of that great and much respected class, he would answer No! Point the second is this. The telling fact that Twemlow is related to Lord Snigsworth, must be let off.
Suppose I drew my arm through the arm of my respected friend upon my left, and, walking with him through the ancestral woods of his family, and under the spreading beeches of Snigsworthy Park, approached the noble hall, crossed the courtyard, entered by the door, went up the staircase, and, passing from room to room, found myself at last in the august presence of my friend's near kinsman, Lord Snigsworth.
'Would you have any objection to write down to Snigsworthy Park, and ask this favour of Lord Snigsworth? Of course if it were granted I should know that I owed it solely to you; while at the same time you would put it to Lord Snigsworth entirely upon public grounds. Would you have any objection? Says Twemlow, with his hand to his forehead, 'You have exacted a promise from me.
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