[The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope]@TWC D-Link bookThe Prime Minister CHAPTER X 4/26
"What can one do, you know, when the House is sitting ?" said the lady apologetically.
"Of course you lords can get away, but then you have nothing to do." Lord Mongrober grunted, meaning to imply by his grunt that any one would be very much mistaken who supposed that he had any work to do because he was a peer of Parliament. Lopez and Emily were seated next to each other, and immediately opposite to them was Mr.Wharton.Certainly nothing fraudulent had been intended on this occasion,--or it would have been arranged that the father should sit on the same side of the table with the lover, so that he should see nothing of what was going on.
But it seemed to Mr.Wharton as though he had been positively swindled by his sister-in-law.
There they sat opposite to him, talking to each other apparently with thoroughly mutual confidence, the very two persons whom he most especially desired to keep apart.
He had not a word to say to either of the ladies near him.
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