He was convinced that Liberal politics were good for Englishmen, and that Liberal politics and the Mildmay party were one and the same thing.

It would be unfair to Barrington Erle to deny to him some praise for patriotism.

But he hated the very name of independence in Parliament, and when he was told of any man, that that man intended to look to measures and not to men, he regarded that man as being both unstable as water and dishonest as the wind.

No good could possibly come from such a one, and much evil might and probably would come.

Such a politician was a Greek to Barrington Erle, from whose hands he feared to accept even the gift of a vote.