That women should even wish to have votes at parliamentary elections was to her abominable, and the cause of the Rights of Women generally was odious to her; but, nevertheless, for herself, she delighted in hoping that she too might be useful,--in thinking that she too was perhaps, in some degree, politically powerful; and she had received considerable increase to such hopes when her father accepted the Privy Seal.

The Earl himself was not an ambitious man, and, but for his daughter, would have severed himself altogether from political life before this time.

He was an unhappy man;--being an obstinate man, and having in his obstinacy quarrelled with his only son.

In his unhappiness he would have kept himself alone, living in the country, brooding over his wretchedness, were it not for his daughter.

On her behalf, and in obedience to her requirements, he came yearly up to London, and, perhaps in compliance with her persuasion, had taken some part in the debates of the House of Lords.