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I must pass over their speeches by saying that both speakers did extremely well. Even Mr. Balfour had to compliment them; and the Old Man almost went out of his way to express his gratification. It was everywhere remarked that most of the leaders of parties began the Session in excellent fighting trim. Mr.
I wanted a picture of the Earl of Rothes for the Duke of Buccleuch, a fine Sir Joshua, but Balfour of Balbirnie fancied it also, and followed it to 160 guineas. Charles Sharpe's account is, that I may think myself in luck, for the face has been repainted. There is, he says, a print taken from the picture at Leslie House which has quite a different countenance from the present.
Balfour." "But, mistress," said I, "there are surely other things besides mere beauty." "By which I am to understand that I am no better than I should be, perhaps?" she asked. "By which you will please understand that I am like the cock in the midden in the fable-book," said I. "I see the braw jewel and I like fine to see it too but I have more need of the pickle corn." "Bravissimo!" she cried.
And you have promised to stay with me until the end, which I feel assured is not far off." "I trust it may be," said Cabot, "for the world can ill afford to spare a man of your attainments." "The world has forgotten me ere this," replied Mr. Balfour, with a faint smile, "and has also managed to get along very well without me.
Honour, I conceive, is, in a phrase of Aristotle's, duty "with a bloom on it." Readers of his Letters, and of his Biography by his cousin, Mr. Balfour; readers of his essays, and of his novels, must see that he was keenly interested in cases of conscience; in the right course to steer in an apparent conflict of duties.
Gladstone's white head against the window as he sat to sign the register; and the greeting between him and Mr. Balfour when he had done. This was written while Lord Rosebery was Prime Minister and Mr. Balfour, still free, until the following year, from the trammels of office, was finishing his brilliant Foundations of Belief, which came out in 1895.
Balfour and coercion had completely failed to do even as much as he had done. Mr. Balfour made a somewhat feeble reply. And finally, in spite of a strong whip, the Tories were beaten by forty-five the normal Liberal majority. But all this was but the preface to uglier and worse work which was to come later on. Supply is the happy hunting-ground of obstructives.
"Young man," returned Balfour, "you are already weary of me, and would be yet more so, perchance, did you know the task upon which I have been lately put. And I wonder not that it should be so, for there are times when I am weary of myself.
"This one cost you a good deal, however; you gave five hundred pounds for it, did you not?" Balfour nodded assent. "A great sum for a few barren acres," said Solomon, thoughtfully. "Yes; and so the trustees of the estate thought, Mr. Coe. They closed with my offer sharp enough, and withdrew the lot from public competition; else, perhaps, I should have got it cheaper."
Balfour that he was not alone in the camp, and, in his own inimitable way, having first enjoined the strictest secrecy, he told the story of Mr. Benedict and his boy. "Benedict will hunt and fish with ye better nor I can," said he, "an' he's a better man nor I be any way; but I'm at yer sarvice, and ye shall have the best time in the woods that I can give ye."
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