He will intend to support us; but all that is veiled in the obscurity which is always, I think, darker as to the future of politics than any other future.
Clouds arise, one knows not why or whence, and create darkness when one expected light.

But as yet, you must understand, nothing is settled.

I cannot even say what answer I may make to her Majesty, till I know what commands her Majesty may lay upon me." "You must keep a hold of it now, Plantagenet," said the Duchess, clenching her own fist.
"I will not even close a finger on it with any personal ambition," said the Duke.

"If I could be relieved from the burden this moment it would be an ease to my heart.

I remember once," he said,--and as he spoke he again put his arm around her waist, "when I was debarred from taking office by a domestic circumstance." "I remember that too," she said, speaking very gently and looking up at him.
"It was a grief to me at the time, though it turned out so well,--because the office then suggested to me was one which I thought I could fill with credit to the country.