CHAPTER X.
A SCANDAL Montagu re-enters the House of Commons--His miserliness--Pope refers to it--Comments on Society--Lady Mary and a first-class scandal--Remond-- His admiration for her--Her imprudent letters to him--The South Sea Bubble--Lady Mary speculates for Remond--She loses money for him--He demands to be re-imbursed--He threatens to publish her letters--She states the case in letters to Lady Mar--Lady Mary meets Pope--His letters to her when she was abroad--He affects to be in love with her--Her matter-of-fact replies--Her parody of his verses, "On John Hughes and Sarah Drew." Montagu, on his return to England, again entered the House of Commons, where he represented Huntingdon from 1722 to 1734, and then for Peterborough from 1734 to 1747 and from 1754 to 1761.

Whether it was lack of ambition or just want of appreciation of his talents by the leaders of his party, there is no evidence.

Even with his family connections and his wealth, he was never offered a place in any Administration, nor, it must be confessed, did he in any way distinguish himself in Parliament.

As the years passed, his chief pleasure, if indeed it was not his only one, was in the hoarding of money--in this pursuit he was splendidly successful.

From references to Lady Mary in contemporary correspondence, it would appear that she too had no small streak of the miser in her.