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Updated: June 29, 2025
My thoughts have dwelt much, and seriously, on the 'terra incognita, the undiscovered tracts in the pays culinaire, which the profoundest investigators have left untouched and unexplored in veal. But more of this hereafter; the lightness of a letter, is ill suited to the depths of philosophical research. "Lord Dawton sounded me upon my votes yesterday.
Vincent muttered something which, as I really liked and esteemed him, I was resolved not to hear; accordingly I turned to another part of the room: there I found Lady Dawton she was a tall, handsome woman, as proud as a liberal's wife ought to be. She received me with unusual graciousness, and I sat myself beside her.
Now, you and I have been utterly estranged from each other of late. Why? for any dispute any disagreement in private any discovery of meanness treachery, unworthiness in the other? No! merely because I dine with Lord Lincoln, and you with Lord Dawton, voila tout.
Lord Dawton then took courage, and chimed in with a long panegyric on V , and a long account of what was due to him, and to the zeal of his family, adding, that in a crisis like this, it was absolutely necessary to engage a certain, rather than a doubtful and undecided support; that, for his part, if he placed you in parliament, he thought you quite as likely to prove a foe as a friend; that, owing to the marriage of your uncle, your expectations were by no means commensurate with your presumption, and that the same talents which made your claims to favour, as an ally, created also no small danger in placing you in any situation where you could become hurtful as an enemy.
"True," replied that more homely and less stage effect arguer, which we term Knowledge of the world; "but this would be neither useful nor dignified common sense never quarrels with any one. Call upon Lord Dawton, if you will ask him for his promise, with your second best smile, and receive his excuses with your very best.
I sent back an answer in the affirmative, and then gave myself wholly up to considering what was the best line of conduct to pursue with regard to Lord Dawton. "It would be pleasant enough," said Anger, "to go to him, to ask him boldly for the borough so often pledged to you, and in case of his refusal, to confront, to taunt, and to break with him."
Two days after my interview with Lord Dawton, as I was riding leisurely through the Green Park, in no very bright and social mood, one of the favoured carriages, whose owners are permitted to say, "Hic iter est nobis," overtook me. A sweet voice ordered the coachman to stop, and then addressed itself to me.
Few men in office are wise enough to trust the young; as if the greater zeal and sincerity of youth did not more than compensate for its appetite for the gay, or its thoughtlessness of the serious. When we were alone, Dawton said to me, "We are in great despair at the motion upon the , to be made in the Lower House.
Who does not know what active citizens private misfortune makes us? The public is like the pools of Bethesda we all hasten there, to plunge in and rid ourselves of our afflictions. I drew my portfeuille to me, and wrote to Lord Dawton. Three hours after I had sent the note, he called upon me.
It is a pity that generosity such a prodigal to those who do not want it should often be such a niggard to those who do. I need not specify my answer. One may as well be free as dependant, when one can afford it; and I hope yet to teach Lord Dawton, that to forgive the minister is not to forget the affront.
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