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And you have brought me the list?" "No, uncle." "What mean you, boy?" "I mean that I have obeyed your first command; I have been to the Christian meeting as a Christian." A puzzled, inquiring look overspread the premier's countenance. "Well, what then?" "Well, then, of course I acted the part of a Christian to the best of my power.
But he was one of the most efficient of the premier's lieutenants, a tried and faithful follower, a disciple, indeed, as was Peel himself of Canning, and Canning of Pitt.
Along Downing Street he made his way by the railings and rang the bell at last at the Premier's house. He was shown at once into the council room. The four or five men who were seated around a table, and who looked up at his entrance, bore every one of them, household names. The Premier held out his hand. "Good evening, Major Thomson," he began. "Please sit down and join us for a moment."
But the luxury in which the haughty statesman revelled, his towering ambition, and the wealth he lavished on his private abodes, joined to the lofty, condescending air he assumed toward the nobles, soon provoked their jealous murmurings against him and his too partial master; and when, at last, the king, falling ill, repaired to the premier's palace at Lophaburee, some of the more disaffected nobles, headed by a natural son of P'hra Narai and the two princes of Macassar, forced their way into the palace to slay the monarch.
To-night you " said François. "Good!" thought Westerling. "No excuses will be necessary to Marie in order to be at the premier's by ten." Curiosity made him a little ahead of time, but he found the premier awaiting him in his study, free from interruption or eavesdropping. In the shadow of the table lamp the old premier looked his years.
How success in that enterprise might have suggested or shaped a further course of aggression, it is now bootless to conjecture. The project was marred by the Premier's abandonment of his intention.
And I had this only daughter, who would have Lone after me. And I thought perhaps But then you disappeared, you know, and no one on earth could tell for three years what had become of you, when you suddenly turned up as Mr. John Scott at the Premier's dinner." The banker paused, and ran his hand through his gray hair. The young man looked at him with curiosity and interest.
The Premier's view of the situation did not seem to be wholly in accord with the well-known facts, for the Queen even, on her appearance at the London theatres, had been hooted, and the Prime Minister himself was burnt in effigy during a riot at Northampton; great excitement prevailed throughout the country, and Lord John Russell moved as an amendment "That this House, considering the evils which have been caused by the present corn laws and especially by the fluctuation of the graduated or sliding scale, is not prepared to adopt the measure of her Majesty's government, which is founded on the same principles and is likely to be attended by similar results."
These last, feeling that all the stir was largely for their benefit and on their account, were in a fluster of self-consciousness and apprehension, and very loud in their condemnation of the Premier's unscrupulous tactics. "Surely the Governor can't approve of this sort of thing," said one.
"Gentlemen of the Delegation," she said, when she could be heard, "I am glad to see you!" The voice, a throaty contralto, had in it a cordial paternalism that was as familiar as the Premier's face. "Glad to see you come any time, and ask for anything you like. You are just as welcome this time as you were the last time!
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