s my love says lady compose yourself well bring him in and lady really does work and work the horses too for she about town all day calling upon everybody she knows and showing her entertaining powers and green to immense advantage by rattling on with my dear soul what do you think what do you suppose me to be never guess i m pretending to be an agent and for what place of all places pocket and wh because our mutual the dearest friend i in the world has bought it and who is the dearest friend i have in the world a man of the name of not his wife who is the other dearest friend i have in the world and i positively declare i forgot their baby who is the other and we are carrying on this little to keep up appearances and isn t it refreshing then my precious the fun of it is that nobody knows who these are and that they know nobody and that they have a house out of the tales of the and give dinners out of the nights curious to see em my dear say know em come and dine with cm they shan t bore you say who meet you we ll make up a party of our own and i ll engage that they shall not interfere with you for one single moment you really ought to see gold and silver i call their dinner table the do come and dine with my my own my exclusive property the dearest friends i have in the world and above all my dear be sure you promise me your vote and interest and au sorts of reaches for we couldn t think of spending sixpence on it my love and can only consent to be brought m by the spontaneous of the now the point of view by the that this same working and round is to keep up appearances may have something in it but not all the truth more is done or considered to be done � which does as well � by taking and going about than the fair knew ci many vast vague have been made solely by taking and going about particularly in all whether the business in hand be to get a man in or get a man out or get a man over or promote a railway or a railway or what else nothing is to be so effectual as nowhere in a violent hurry � in short as taking and going about probably because this reason is in the air from being singular in his persuasion that he works like a is by who in his turn is by boots and at eight o clock when all these hard workers to dine at s it is understood that the of boots and mustn t leave the door but that of water must be brought from the nearest place and cast over the horses l s on the very spot lest boots and should have instant occasion to mount and away those fleet messengers require the to see that their hats are deposited where they can be laid hold of at an instant s notice and they dine remarkably well though with the air of in charge of an expecting intelligence of some tremendous mrs remarks as dinner opens that many such days would be too much for her many such would be too much for all of us says � but well bring him in well bring him in says lady waving her green for ever another dinner them on their to the halls and lady them and boots and await them there is a modest assertion on everybody s part that single handed brought him in but in the main it is by all that that stroke of business on s part in going down to the house that night to see how things looked was the master stroke a touching little incident is related by mrs in the course of the evening mrs is habitually disposed to bo tearful and has an extra disposition that way after her late excitement previous to withdrawing from the dinner table with lady she says in a and physically weak manner you will au think it foolish of me i know but i must mention it as i sat by baby s on the night before the election baby was very uneasy in her sleep the who gloomily looking on has impulses to suggest wind and throw up his situation but them after an interval almost baby curled her little hands in one another and smiled mrs stopping here mr it incumbent on him to say i wonder why i could it be i asked myself says mrs looking about her for her pocket that the were baby that her papa would shortly be an m p so overcome by the sentiment is mrs that they all get up to make a clear stage for who goes round the table to the rescue and bears her out backward with her feet the carpet after remarking that her work has been too for her strength whether the made any mention of the five thousand pounds and it with baby is not upon poor little quite done up is touched and still continues touched after he is safely over the yard in duke street saint james s but there upon his a a tremendous consideration breaks in upon the mild gentleman putting all softer considerations to the gracious heavens i now i have time to think of it he never saw one of his in all his days until we saw them together after paced the room in distress of mind with his hand to his forehead the innocent returns to his sofa and i shall either go distracted or die of this man he comes upon me too late in life i am not 