CHAPTER XII.
LORD INVERFORTH _"Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people."_--DR.

JOHNSON.
We are keeping up Voltaire's idea of our English character.

Instead of only admirals, however, we are now hanging all sorts and descriptions of our public servants, but whether to encourage the others or to pay off a grudge, who shall determine?
Lord Inverforth takes his hanging very well.

One might go so far as to say that he is not merely unaware of the noose round his neck but so perverse as to think he is still alive.

His sense of humour is as good to him as a philosophic temperament.
I like his sense of humour.