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Buckhurst! you will, I fear, do worse in the world than any of your brothers; for wits are always unlucky: sharp-sighted enough to every thing else, but blind, stone blind to their own interest. Wit is folly, when one is talking of serious business." "Well, my dear father, be agreeable, and I will not be witty.
'No, I want toffy; I have been eating Tom Trot all day. 'Where is Buckhurst? We must settle about the Aquatics. 'Well, I for one will not play if Fielding major plays amongst the Aquatics. That is settled. 'Oh! nonsense; he will pay his money if you ask him. 'I shall not ask him again. The captain duns us every day. It is an infernal shame. 'I say, Burnham, where can one get some toffy?
I did it from spirit, pure spirit," said Buckhurst: "I could not stand by, and see one who had been my schoolfellow horsewhipped if he did not stand by himself, yet I could not but stand by him, for you know I was there as one of his party and as I backed his bets on High-Blood, I could do no less than back his cause altogether. Oh! I could not stand by and see a chum of my own horsewhipped."
I don't think a single man, Vere, that sat in the Venetian Senate ought to be allowed to sit in the present English House of Commons. 'Well, no one does in our family except my uncle Philip, said Lord Henry; 'and the moment I want it, he will resign; for he detests Parliament. It interferes so with his hunting. 'Well, we all have fair parliamentary prospects, said Buckhurst.
The interview lasted a whole forenoon and afternoon. Buckhurst, according to his own statement, answered, freely all questions put to him by Leicester and his counsellors; while, if the report of those personages is to be trusted, he passionately refused to make any satisfactory communication.
We have seen how anxiously Buckhurst had striven to do his duty upon a most difficult mission. Was it unnatural that so fine a nature as his should be disheartened, at reaping nothing but sneers and contumely from the haughty sovereign he served, and from the insolent favourite who controlled her councils?
The interview lasted a whole forenoon and afternoon. Buckhurst, according to his own statement, answered, freely all questions put to him by Leicester and his counsellors; while, if the report of those personages is to be trusted, he passionately refused to make any satisfactory communication.
'The Whigs are worn out, said Vere, 'Conservatism is a sham, and Radicalism is pollution. 'I certainly, said Buckhurst, 'when I get into the House of Commons, shall speak my mind without reference to any party whatever; and all I hope is, we may all come in at the same time, and then we may make a party of our own.
I was correct enough as to the dates; and, suppose I blundered, as my brother Buckhurst says, half the world never know what they are saying, and the other half never find it out. Why, sir, you were telling me the other night such a blunder of Prince Potemkin's "
"Well, let him try let him try," repeated the commissioner, who, vexed as he was, did not choose to run the risk of disobliging Mr. Percy, losing a good match for him, or undergoing the scandal of its being known that he forced his son into the church. For obtaining this consent, however reluctantly granted by the commissioner, Buckhurst warmly thanked Mr.
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