Mr.Daubeny could only inform the House that her Majesty had signified her pleasure that Mr.Mildmay should wait upon her to-morrow at eleven o'clock.
Mr.Mildmay,--so Mr.Daubeny understood,--would be with her Majesty to-morrow at that hour.

Lord de Terrier had found it to be his duty to recommend her Majesty to send for Mr.Mildmay.Such was the real import of Mr.Daubeny's speech.

That further portion of it in which he explained with blandest, most beneficent, honey-flowing words that his party would have done everything that the country could require of any party, had the House allowed it to remain on the Treasury benches for a month or two,--and explained also that his party would never recriminate, would never return evil for evil, would in no wise copy the factious opposition of their adversaries; that his party would now, as it ever had done, carry itself with the meekness of the dove, and the wisdom of the serpent,--all this, I say, was so generally felt by gentlemen on both sides of the House to be "leather and prunella" that very little attention was paid to it.

The great point was that Lord de Terrier had resigned, and that Mr.Mildmay had been summoned to Windsor.
The Queen had sent for Mr.Mildmay in compliance with advice given to her by Lord de Terrier.

And yet Lord de Terrier and his first lieutenant had used all the most practised efforts of their eloquence for the last three days in endeavouring to make their countrymen believe that no more unfitting Minister than Mr.Mildmay ever attempted to hold the reins of office! Nothing had been too bad for them to say of Mr.Mildmay,--and yet, in the very first moment in which they found themselves unable to carry on the Government themselves, they advised the Queen to send for that most incompetent and baneful statesman! We who are conversant with our own methods of politics, see nothing odd in this, because we are used to it; but surely in the eyes of strangers our practice must be very singular.
There is nothing like it in any other country,--nothing as yet.
Nowhere else is there the same good-humoured, affectionate, prize-fighting ferocity in politics.