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The Belton Estate

CHAPTER I
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I think it is my duty." It must be understood that Captain Aylmer was member for Perivale on the Low Church interest, and that, therefore, when at Perivale he was decidedly a Low Churchman.

I am not aware that the peculiarity stuck to him very closely at Aylmer Castle, in Yorkshire, or among his friends in London; but there was no hypocrisy in this, as the world goes.

Women in such matters are absolutely false if they be not sincere; but men, with political views, and with much of their future prospects in jeopardy also, are allowed to dress themselves differently for different scenes.

Whatever be the peculiar interest on which a man goes into Parliament, of course he has to live up to that in his own borough.

Whether malt, the franchise, or teetotalism be his rallying point, of course he is full of it when among his constituents.


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