He came, saw his patient, and was told that what he had to do was to make her presentable by the following Friday! He shook his head, said the time was too short--but he would do his best.

And the desired object was _fully_ attained.
I have no doubt that my mother returned from her Vienna visit a more strongly convinced Conservative in politics than she had hitherto been.

And it does not seem to me that the modification of her opinions in that direction, which was doubtless largely operated by conversation with the great Conservative statesman and his _alter ego_, the Princess, needs to be in any degree attributed to the "graciousness" of people in high position either male or female.

Is it not very intelligible and very likely that such opinions, so set forth, as she from day to day heard them, should have honestly and legitimately influenced her own?
But I think that I should be speaking, if perhaps presumptuously, yet truly, if I were to add that there was also one very far from great personage, whose influence in the same direction was greater than even that of Prince Metternich or of any other great folks whatever; and that was the son in daily and almost hourly communion and conversation with whom she lived.

I also had begun life as a "Liberal," and was such in the days when Mr.Gladstone was a high Tory.