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At any rate," added Lord Glistonbury, "you know I have always stood your firm friend in this business; and you know I'm discreet." Vivian never felt so grateful for any instance of his lordship's friendship and discretion as for that which he gave at this moment, by quitting the room, and leaving him in peace to read his letter.
But Russell was absent the keeper of his conscience, the supporter of his resolution, was not at hand. Woe to him who is not the keeper of his own conscience the supporter of his own resolution! The result of this political breakfast was just what every reader, who knows the world but half as well as Lord Glistonbury knew it, has probably long since anticipated.
He could not decide whether he should go to his mother immediately on leaving Glistonbury, or to Mr. After altering his determination twenty times, after giving at least a dozen contradictory orders about his journey, his servant at last had his ultimatum, for London the carriage to be at the door at ten o'clock the next morning. Every thing was ready at the appointed hour.
"This son of mine, instead of being our great Apollo, will be a dead weight on our hands, unless we can contrive to raise his spirits." So, to raise his spirits, Lord Glistonbury accompanied him to the coffee-room of the house, and insisted upon his taking some refreshment before he should attempt to speak.
Lady Glistonbury had but imperfectly recovered her recollection. At one moment she smiled on Vivian, and tried to stretch out her hand to him, as she saw him standing beside Lady Sarah. But when he approached Lady Glistonbury, and spoke to her, she seemed to have some painful recollection, and, looking round the room, expressed surprise and uneasiness at his being there.
But if a man maintains certain public measures one day, and the next, for valuable consideration, supports diametrically opposite opinions and measures, he will lose, and deserve to lose, all reputation for integrity." "Integrity! political integrity!" said Lord Glistonbury; "fine words, which mean nothing. Behind the scenes, as we are now, Vivian, what use can there be in talking in that strain?
Lord Glistonbury, who had called in for a few moments, was now playing the great man, as well as his total want of dignity of mind and manners would permit; he was answering, in whispers, questions about his marquisate, and sustaining with all his might his new part of the friend of government.
If you must go into parliament immediately for the good of your country, go in as member for some borough, which will not ruin you." "But the committee of our friends will be so disappointed if I decline; and my mother, who has now set her heart upon it, and Lord Glistonbury, and Mr. C , and Mr. G , and Mr. D , who are such zealous friends, and who urge me so much "
"Excellent woman! in justice to myself, I must tell you," cried he, "that I was deceived into this situation. I CAN say no more!" At this moment a servant knocked at the door, bringing a message from Lord Glistonbury, to say that all the company were assembled, and that dinner waited for Mr. Vivian. "You are not in a fit state to go. Shall I send an apology to my father?" "Oh, no!
What passed during some succeeding days at Glistonbury Castle he scarcely knew; no trace remained in his mind of anything but the confused noise of people, who had been talking, laughing, and diverting themselves in a manner that seemed to him incomprehensible.
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