He certainly couldn't go as Lord Lieutenant." "But they said that Barrington Erle was going to Ireland." "Well; yes.

I don't know that you'd be interested by all the ins and outs of it.

But Mr.Erle declined.

It seems that Mr.Erle is after all the one man in Parliament modest enough not to consider himself to be fit for any place that can be offered to him." "Poor Barrington! He does not like the idea of crossing the Channel so often.

I quite sympathise with him.