I never could do that.

And I do not doubt that they are living happily together to this day.
'The lawyer Chaffanbrass made his first appearance in this novel, and I do not think that I have cause to be ashamed of him.

But this novel now is chiefly noticeable to me from the fact that in it I introduced a character under the name of Sir Gregory Hardlines, by which I intended to lean very heavily on that much loathed scheme of competitive examination, of which at that time Sir Charles Trevelyan was the great apostle.

Sir Gregory Hardlines was intended for Sir Charles Trevelyan--as any one at the time would know who had taken an interest in the Civil Service.

'We always call him Sir Gregory,' Lady Trevelyan said to me afterwards when I came to know her husband.