The Duke's Children by Anthony Trollope
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down to Matching on the next Monday. He said nothing of his plan
to anyone, and not a word passed between him and Lord Silverbridge about Lady Mary during the first two or three days. But on Saturday Silverbridge appeared at breakfast with a letter in his hand. 'The governor is coming up to town,' he said. 'Immediately?' 'In the course of next week. He says that he thinks he shall be here on Wednesday.' It immediately struck Tregear that this sudden journey must have some reference to Lady Mary and her engagement. 'Do you know why he is coming?' 'Because of these vacancies in Parliament.' 'Why should that bring him up?' 'I suppose he hopes to be able to talk me into obedience. He wants me to stand for the county--as a Liberal, of course. I intend to stand for the borough as a Conservative, and I have told them so down at Silverbridge. I am very sorry to annoy him, and all that kind of thing. But what the deuce is a fellow to do? If a man has got political convictions of his own, of course he must stick to them.' This the young Lord said with a good deal of self- assurance, as though he, by the light of his own reason, had ascertained on which side the truth lay in the political contests of the day. |
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