"I left there soon after ten." "Lord Chatham has kindly offered to secure admission for you and me to the House of Lords.

He is making an important motion.

Come, let us go and see the hereditary legislators." Lord Stanhope met them at the door of the House of Lords.

There was a great bustle among the officers when His Lordship announced their names and his desire to have them admitted.

The officers hurried in after members and there was some delay, in the course of which the Americans were turned from the division reserved for eldest sons and brothers of peers.