I said to every one of them separately, 'Sir, you are much obliged to Mr.Savile;' 'Sir, Mr.Savile has been much your friend.' In the end Harry got a handsome present; and I wished him good luck with it.

I was his shadow then.

I am Mr.Bates's shadow now." The Duke had hardly related this anecdote, so strikingly illustrative of the state of political morality in that generation, when it was whispered to him that a motion to impeach him had been made in the House of Commons.

He hastened thither; but, before he arrived, the question had been put and carried.

Nevertheless he pressed for admittance; and he was admitted.