I refer to your projected lecture last night." "I beg that your Grace will not allude to it," I said, hastily.

"It is really of very little importance." The Duke had a habit which I began at this time to observe.

He appeared to enter into all discussions with his mind wholly made up upon the subject, and any interruptions and interpolations he simply endured with patience, and then continued on his way without the slightest reference to them.

He sat during my remark with half-closed eyes, and when I had finished he went on, wholly ignoring it-- "This is a strange little corner of the world," he said, "and the minds of the people here are for the most part like the minds of little children; they need forming.

I have heard some remarks concerning the war from one or two of my tenants which have not pleased me.
Accordingly, while Colonel Ray was here, I thought it an excellent opportunity to endeavour to instruct them as to the real facts of the case.