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"/Accordingly,/" continued Ferrers, "/as one whose connection with you permits the liberty, allow me to request that you will suffer our joint relation, Mr. Ferrers, to be put into immediate nomination./" Lord Saxingham threw down the pen and laughed for two minutes without ceasing. "Capital, Lumley, capital Very odd I did not think of it before."

Lord Saxingham and Lumley's adherents in the Government were to a man dismissed; and at the time Lord Saxingham wrote the premier was with the king. "Curse their folly! the puppets! the dolts!" exclaimed Lumley, crushing the letter in his hand. "The moment I leave them, they run their heads against the wall. Curse them! curse myself! curse the man who weaves ropes with sand!

YOU shall be Horace, and Tibullus I. POPE. LORD VARGRAVE was disturbed from his revery by the entrance of the Earl of Saxingham. "You are welcome!" said Lumley, "welcome! the very man I wished to see."

"I cannot restrain you, Lady Florence," said he, half smiling, "but my conscience will not let me be an accomplice. I will turn king's evidence, and hunt out Lord Saxingham to send him to you." Lady Florence, whose face was averted from his, did not appear to hear him. "And you, Mr. Maltravers," turning quickly round "you have you friends?

Lord Saxingham, who was scarcely altered since we met with him in the last series of this work, except that he had grown somewhat paler and thinner, and that his hair had changed from iron-gray to snow-white, threw himself in the armchair beside Lumley, and replied, "Vargrave, it is really unpleasant, our finding ourselves always thus controlled by our own partisans.

I may have no male offspring meanwhile, draw on me to any reasonable amount young men have expenses but be prudent, and if you want to get on in the world, never let the world detect you in a scrape. There, leave me now." "My best, my heartfelt thanks!" "Hush sound Lord Saxingham again; I must and will have this bauble I have set my heart on it."

The next day, Lord Saxingham went to his office in Downing Street as usual, and Lady Florence and Ernest found an opportunity to ramble through the grounds alone. There it was that occurred those confessions, sweet alike to utter and to hear. Then did Florence speak of her early years of her self-formed and solitary mind of her youthful dreams and reveries.

Away went Lord Saxingham. "Florence glad to see me!" said Lumley, throwing his arms behind him, and striding to and fro the room "Scheme the Second begins to smile upon me behind the advancing shadow of Scheme One.

And permit me to add," continued he, seizing with instant adroitness the new weakness presented to him "permit me to add, that those relations, who have been ever kind to me, would, properly managed, be highly efficient in promoting your own views of advancement; for your sake I would not break with them. Lord Saxingham is still a minister nay, he is in the cabinet."

Here, as he was munching a biscuit and reading an article in one of the ministerial papers the heads of which he himself had supplied Lord Saxingham joined and drew him to the window. "I have reason to think," said the earl, "that your visit to Windsor did good." "Ah, indeed; so I fancied."