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Early in the following year, Lord John was raised to the peerage as Earl Russell of Kingston-Russell and Viscount Amberley and Ardsalla. 'I cannot despatch, wrote Mr. Gladstone, 'as I have just done, the Chiltern Hundreds for you, without expressing the strong feelings which even that formal act awakens.
"The old woman is an ally of mine now," said Phineas. "You make allies everywhere. You know Violet Effingham of course?" "Oh yes. I know her." "Don't you think her very charming?" said Lord Chiltern. "Exceedingly charming." "I have asked that girl to marry me three times, and I shall never ask her again. There is a point beyond which a man shouldn't go.
"But, Lord Chiltern, " said Miss Effingham, rising also to her feet, and then pausing, not knowing how to answer him.
I was on the point of going over to see old Murdock. Seriously ill you know last time, I'm afraid," and Mr. Simpson shook his head. He held out his hand. Hugh did not appear to notice it. "Sit down, Mr. Simpson," he said. Mr. Simpson sat down. Chiltern took a stand before him.
A Captain Halpin commands the big ship. There are four smaller vessels. The WM. CORY, which laid the Norderney cable, has already gone to St. Pierre to lay the shore ends. The HAWK and CHILTERN have gone to Brest to lay shore ends. The HAWK and SCANDERIA go with us across the Atlantic and we shall at St. Pierre be transhipped into one or the other.
They rose at half-past seven, they breakfasted at a quarter after eight; at nine, young Mr. Manning, the farm superintendent, was in waiting, and Hugh spent two or more hours in his company, inspecting, correcting, planning; for two thousand acres of the original Chiltern estate still remained. Two thousand acres which, since the General's death, had been at sixes and sevens.
A hard and disputatious element has been commented on by strangers: it would not touch Fleeming, who was himself regarded, even in this metropolis of disputation, as a thorny table-mate. To golf unhappily he did not take, and golf is a cardinal virtue in the city of the winds. Nor did he become an archer of the Queen's Body Guard, which is the Chiltern Hundreds of the distasted golfer.
She was in the street again, in the automobile, without knowing how she got there, and Chiltern close beside her in the limousine. "My wife!" he whispered. Was she? Could it be true, be lasting, be binding for ever and ever? Her hand pressed his convulsively. "Oh, Hugh!" she cried, "care for me stay by me forever. Will you promise?" "I promise, Honora," he repeated. "Henceforth we are one."
Lord Chiltern, during their interview at the rooms in Great Marlborough Street, had said a word to him about the seat in Parliament; had expressed some opinion that as he, Phineas Finn, was interfering with the views of the Standish family in regard to Miss Effingham, he ought not to keep the Standish seat, which had been conferred upon him in ignorance of any such intended interference.
It lies in the valley of the Authie River, between downs of chalk, beech-covered, which put on beautiful colours as soon as the first frosts of autumn touched them. The whole countryside is indeed strangely reminiscent of the Chiltern Hills of Oxfordshire and Bucks.
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