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Granby desired that it might be pulled down and altered to suit Emma's taste. "Bless me!" cried Griselda, with great surprise, "are you really going to have it pulled down, Mr. Granby?" "Certainly," replied he; "and what is more, I am going to help to pull it down." He ran to assist the masons, and worked with a degree of zeal, which increased Mrs. Bolingbroke's astonishment. "Good Heavens!
The tone is Bolingbroke's, and it was the lesson George had insistently heard from early youth. How sinister was the advice, men did not see until the elder Pitt was in political exile, with Wilkes an outlaw, and general warrants threatening the whole basis of past liberties. The first writer who pointed out in unmistakable terms the meaning of the new synthesis was Junius.
The voice was untrained but this did not matter. It was like the trill of a bird, sweet, flexible and pure toned. "A voice like that ought not to be battered about. It's meant for something better than bawling to a mob. What says your lordship?" Bolingbroke's face had become grave, almost stern.
He knew that the times needed, in the high places of government, men "who," in Bolingbroke's phrase, "had built about them the opinion of mankind which, fame after death, is superior strength and power in life." Of the great abilities which Mr. Chase, in his administration of the Treasury, exhibited through the three arduous years of that public service, no question has ever been made.
With a Parliament of landed gentry and Churchmen behind him Harley could not be drawn into measures which would effectively alienate the merchant or the Dissenter; and if Bolingbroke's talk was more reckless, time was not given to show whether his designs were more than talk.
The Jacobites promised themselves much from his affection, but more from his resentment; and they believed the majority of the tories would join them on the same maxims. All Bolingbroke's schemes of power were defeated by the promotion of the duke of Shrewsbury to the office of treasurer; and all his hopes blasted by the death of the queen, on whose personal favour he depended.
He himself often resembled Lady Bolingbroke's lively description of Pope; that 'he was un politique aux choux et aux raves. . He would say, 'I dine to-day in Grosvenor-square; this might be with a Duke : or, perhaps, 'I dine to-day at the other end of the town: or, 'A gentleman of great eminence called on me yesterday. He loved thus to keep things floating in conjecture: Omne ignotum pro magnifico est. . I believe I ventured to dissipate the cloud, to unveil the mystery, more freely and frequently than any of his friends.
Meanwhile the object of Sally Salisbury's hoped for revenge was sitting in a dark corner of the coffee room of the Maiden Head tavern. She felt terribly embarrassed and answered Bolingbroke's compliments in monosyllables. He pressed her to take some wine but she refused. To her great relief he did not trouble her with attentions.
His departure it might almost be called his second flight to the Continent was probably hastened also by the knowledge that a pamphlet was about to be published by some of his enemies, containing a series of letters which had passed between him and James Stuart's secretary, after Bolingbroke's dismissal from the service of James in 1716.
I would, upon my word, much rather that you had Lord Bolingbroke's style and eloquence in speaking and writing, than all the learning of the Academy of Sciences, the Royal Society, and the two Universities united.
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