"Let me assure you I wouldn't change my views in politics either for you or for the Earl, though each of you carried seats in your breeches pockets.

If I go into Parliament, I shall go there as a sound Liberal,--not to support a party, but to do the best I can for the country.

I tell you so, and I shall tell the Earl the same." Barrington Erle turned away in disgust.

Such language was to him simply disgusting.

It fell upon his ears as false maudlin sentiment falls on the ears of the ordinary honest man of the world.