Everything in India is given by the Governor in Council; and, though I have no direct voice in the disposal of patronage, my indirect influence may be great.
Grant's kindness through all these negotiations has been such as I really cannot describe.

He told me yesterday, with tears in his eyes, that he did not know what the Board would do without me.

I attribute his feeling partly to Robert Grant's absence; not that Robert ever did me ill offices with him far from it; but Grant's is a mind that cannot stand alone.

It is begging your pardon for my want of gallantry, a feminine mind.

It turns, like ivy, to some support.