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George walked out of the door, with his child on one arm and his wife on the other. His step was firm, his face settled and resolute. Rachel and Simeon came out after them. "You get out, a moment," said Phineas to those inside, "and let me fix the back of the wagon, there, for the women-folks and the boy." "Here are the two buffaloes," said Rachel.
"Questionable that at least at present. Whatever I may be, I am just now the lad that drives your father's cart, and works in your father's tan-yard John Halifax, and very much at your service, Mr. Phineas Fletcher."
Phineas had seen Laurence Fitzgibbon enter the House, which he did quite late in the night, so as to be in time for the division. No doubt he had dined in the House, and had been all the evening in the library, or in the smoking-room. When Mr. Mildmay was on his legs making his reply, Fitzgibbon had sauntered in, not choosing to wait till he might be rung up by the bell at the last moment.
Pursuing the chronological order we come next to Phineas Fletcher's 'Piscatorie Eclogs' appended to his Purple Island in 1633. Except that the scene is laid on the banks of a river instead of in the pastures, and that the characters spend their time looking after boats and nets instead of tending flocks, they differ in nought from the strictly pastoral compositions.
In no other way could he carry out his project and satisfy his own idea of what was honest. The Earl bade him send to the hotel for his things. "The Baldock people are all here, you know, but they go very early to-morrow." Then Phineas declared that he also must return to London very early on the morrow; but in the meantime he would go to the inn and fetch his things.
"Yes; but " and she shook her head "remember your promise!" "Phineas, this wife of mine is a vain woman. She knows her own price is 'far above rubies' or diamonds either. No, Mrs. Halifax, be not afraid; I shall give you no more jewels." She did not need them. She stood amidst her three sons with the smile of a Cornelia.
"With a majority of nineteen against him!" said Phineas. "Surely Mr. Mildmay is not the only man in the country. There is the Duke, and there is Mr. Gresham, and there is Mr. Monk." Phineas had at his tongue's end all the lesson that he had been able to learn at the Reform Club. "I should hardly think the Duke would venture," said Mr. Kennedy. "Nothing venture, nothing have," said Phineas.
The Earl thanked him again and again for his generous kindness; and Phineas, blushing as he received the thanks, went back and wrote his letter to Lord Chiltern. It was an elaborate letter, written, as regards the first and larger portion of it, with words intended to bring the prodigal son back to the father's home. And everything was said about Miss Effingham that could or should have been said.
"I always look upon the 'Ouse as my oyster, and 'ere's my sword," said Mr. Slide, brandishing an old quill pen. "And I feel that if once there I could get along. I do indeed. What is it a man wants? It's only pluck, that he shouldn't funk because a 'undred other men are looking at him." Then Phineas asked him whether he had any idea of a constituency, to which Mr.
An heir to a dukedom, if he will only work hard, may almost with certainty find himself received into one or the other regiment in Downing Street. It had not in his early days been with him as it had with his friends Mr. Monk and Phineas Finn, who had worked their way from the very ranks. But even a duke cannot become Prime Minister by favour.
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