16/31 They say he will be the next Chancellor of the Exchequer to a certainty." "I daresay he will. He has the art of keeping himself before the public eye. Being myself so constituted--it is not any virtue in me, only a constitutional defect--that I cannot elbow for a place, it is difficult for me to understand how another, especially a man like Grenfell, can bring himself to do so. I had always thought he was miles above that kind of thing." "So he is. |