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Mary Gray had expanded to answer the genial warmth of Mrs. Ilbert's manner as a flower opens to the sun. It was not in her to be ungracious, and Mrs. Ilbert was a charming woman. And now he asked himself what was he going to do for the next month or six weeks till his mother and Nelly came home? All the winter he had been in the habit of seeing Mary Gray two or three times a week.
He was one of the youngest members of Parliament, and was gifted with a dazzling and impertinent wit. Sir Robin had occasionally smarted under Ilbert's sallies. He was a target for them, with his serious and simple views, his lean air of Don Quixote. Mary looked at him reproachfully, as though the speech grieved her. "He is very generous," she repeated. "He has come to see me.
"I hope you will excuse my descending on you like this. But I positively had to. This wonderful book of yours my boy has been talking of it every hour we have been alone. It is such a pleasure to meet you. Ah Sir Robin Drummond, how do you do? Are you also privileged to know about the wonderful book?" To Robin Drummond's mind Ilbert's smile and nod had something amused, mocking in them.
I can fully believe in the truth of Sir C. P. Ilbert's remark that whatever the value of the codes in other respects, their educational value must be considerable. They may convince students that law is not a mere trackless jungle of arbitrary rules to be picked up in detail, but that there is really somewhere to be discovered a foundation of reason and common sense.
"Oh, Ilbert's conscience is pretty elastic, I should say, and he can agree with many things," Sir Robin answered. He felt vaguely annoyed that Ilbert should have had anything to do with Mary or her book. Ilbert was one of the younger school of Tories, a free-lance he called himself, handsome, conceited, immensely clever, a golden youth with an air of Oxford and the Schools added to him.
The idea was exceedingly distasteful to him. "He has the highest opinion of your honesty and capacity, your patriotism too," Mary said. He did not want Ilbert's commendation; he hated that Mary should quote his opinions. He lay back in the hansom, staring before him, and his expression was one of unmixed gloom.
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