farmers he suspected of killing the what game he had that very morning what spot he would recommend as a new cover and the comparative of all existing sport compared with under which old england had been prosperous and glorious while so ar as he could see it had gained little by the of practice which sharpened the faculties of men gratified the instincts of the fowl and carried out the designs of heaven in its admirable device of spurs from these main topics which made his points of departure and he easily enough at any new suggestion or so that when got home at a late hour he was conscious of having gathered from amidst the full toned of his uncle s chat some impressions which were of practical importance among the s it appeared was mr a fat handed fellow with a scented handkerchief one of your educated low bred fellows a who got his latin for nothing at christ s hospital one of your middle class who want to rank with gentlemen and think they ll do it with kid gloves and new furniture but since meant to stand for the county mr was equally emphatic as to the necessity of his not with till the election was over must be his agent must wink hard till he found himself safely returned and even then it might be well to let drop gently and raise no scandal he himself had no quarrel with the fellow a clergyman should have no quarrels and he made it a point to be able to take wine with any man he met at table and as to the estate and his sister s going too much by s advice he never with business it was not his duty as a clergyman that be the radical considered was the meaning of and the a subject into which he had gone to some depth thirty years ago when he preached the sermon the discovery that meant to stand on the liberal side � nay that he boldly declared himself a radical � was rather startling but to his uncle s good humor by the of port wine nothing could seem highly objectionable provided it did not disturb that operation in the course of half an hour he had brought himself to see that any really worthy to be called british had been entirely extinct since the duke of and sir robert had passed the catholic bill that with its rights of man stopping short at ten pound and its policy of a wild beast with a bite was a ridiculous that therefore since an honest man could not call himself a tory which it was in fact as impossible to be now as to fight for the old and could still less become that a there remained but one course open to him why lad if the world was turned into a swamp i suppose we should leave off shoes and stockings and walk about like � whence it followed plainly enough that in these hopeless times nothing was left to men of sense and good family but to the national ruin by declaring themselves and take the inevitable process of changing � � ry thing out of the hands of and purse proud it is true the was helped to this chain of reasoning by s remarks but he soon became quite ardent in asserting the conclusion if the mob can t be turned back a man of family must try and head the mob and save a few homes and and keep the country up on its last legs as long as he can and you re a man of family my lad � dash it you re a whatever else yon may be and i ll stand by you i ve no great interest i m a poor parson i ve been forced to give up hunting my and a glass of good wine are the only becoming my station that i can allow myself but i ll give you my countenance � i ll stick to you as my nephew there s no need for me to change sides exactly i was bom a � tory and i shall never be a bishop but if any body says you re in the wrong i shall say my nephew is in the right he has turned radical to save his country if william had been living now he d have done the same for what did he say when he was dying not oh save my party but h save my country heaven that was what they in our ears about and the duke and now i ll turn it round upon them they shall be with their own yes yes i ll stand by you did not feel sure that his uncle would thoroughly retain this satisfactory thread of argument in the hours of the morning but the old gentleman was sure to take the facts easily in the end and there was no fear of family coolness or on this side was glad of it he was not to be turned aside from any course he had chosen but he disliked all as an unpleasant expenditure of energy that could have no good practical result he was at once active and luxurious fond of mastery and good natured enough to wish that every one about him should like his mastery n ot caring greatly to know other people s thou t and ready to despise them if their thoughts differed from his and yet that they should have no reason for slight thoughts about the must be forced to respect him hence in proportion as he foresaw that his equals in the neighborhood would be indignant with him f his political choice he cared keenly about making a good figure before them in every way his conduct as a was to be judicious his establishment was to be 