[The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope]@TWC D-Link bookThe Prime Minister CHAPTER XI 4/34
If it ought to be done at any time, it ought to be done now.
In that his wife had been right.
"Very well.
Then let us go there." "I'll manage it all," said the Duchess,--"I and Locock." Locock was the house-steward. "I remember once," said the Duke, and he smiled as he spoke with a peculiarly sweet expression, which would at times come across his generally inexpressive face,--"I remember once that some First Minister of the Crown gave evidence as to the amount of his salary, saying that his place entailed upon him expenses higher than his stipend would defray.
I begin to think that my experience will be the same." "Does that fret you ?" "No, Cora;--it certainly does not fret me, or I should not allow it. But I think there should be a limit.
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