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Updated: June 25, 2025
What an ending for a maternal epistle is that elegant compliment 'Songez que de tons les coeurs ou vous regnez, il n'y en a aucun ou votre empire soit si bien etabli que dans le mien.* I can scarcely fancy Lord Saxingham writing so to you, Lady Florence." * Think that of all the hearts over which you reign, there is not one in which your empire can be so well established as in mine.
The rest of that morning Vargrave devoted to Lord Saxingham and his allies; and declaring, and believing, that he should not be long absent at Paris, he took an early dinner, and was about once more to commit himself to the risks of travel, when, as he crossed the hall, Mr. Douce came hastily upon him. "Not abscond, Mr.
Their strength numbered, friends and foes alike canvassed and considered, and due account taken of the waverers to be won over, it really did seem, even to the least sanguine, that the Saxingham or Vargrave party was one that might well aspire either to dictate to, or to break up, a government. Nothing now was left to consider but the favourable hour for action.
He concluded by offering to Vargrave, in the most cordial and flattering terms, the very seat in the Cabinet which Lord Saxingham had vacated, with an apology for its inadequacy to his lordship's merits, and a distinct and definite promise of the refusal of the gorgeous viceroyalty of India, which would be vacant next year by the return of the present governor-general.
Her fortune will be nearly all at her own disposal, too, when she comes of age; now she is in the nursery, 'eating bread and honey. My father, less lucky and less wise than his cousin, thought fit to marry a Miss Templeton a nobody. The Saxingham branch of the family politely dropped the acquaintance.
In politics; though nothing could be finally settled till his return, letters from Lord Saxingham assured him that all was auspicious: the court and the heads of the aristocracy daily growing more alienated from the premier, and more prepared for a Cabinet revolution.
You, Privy Seal! you ought to be Premier; ay, and, if you are ruled by me, Premier you shall be yet." Lord Saxingham coloured, and breathed hard. "You have often hinted at this before, Lumley; but you are so partial, so friendly." "Not at all. You saw the leading article in the to-day? That will be followed up by two evening papers within five hours of this time.
Saxingham and his friends were imbeciles, incapables, mostly men who had outlived their day. But Lord Vargrave, in the prime of life versatile, accomplished, vigorous, bitter, unscrupulous Vargrave was of another mould, Vargrave was to be dreaded; and therefore, if possible, to be retained.
"My dearest father, I wished to speak with you on a matter of much importance." "Do you? what, immediately?" "Yes." "Well what is it? your Slingsby property, I suppose." "No, my dear father pray sit down and hear me patiently." Lord Saxingham began to be both alarmed and curious he seated himself in silence, and looked anxiously in the face of his daughter.
In terms of affected regret, he alluded to the loss the Government would sustain in the services of Lord Saxingham, etc.; he rejoiced that Lord Vargrave's absence from London had prevented his being prematurely mixed up, by false scruples of honour, in secessions which his judgment must condemn.
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