'Do you remember Bucknall? Which Bucknall? The eldest: I saw him the other
day at Nottingham; he is in the Rifles. Do you remember that day at Sirly
Hall, that Paulet had that row with Dickinson? Did you like Dickinson?
Hum! Paulet was a good fellow. I tell you who was a good fellow, Paulet's
little cousin. What! Augustus Le Grange? Oh! I liked Augustus Le Grange. I
wonder where Buckhurst is? I had a letter from him the other day. He has
gone with his uncle to Paris. We shall find him at Cambridge in October. I
suppose you know Millbank has gone to Oriel. Has he, though! I wonder who
will have our room at Cookesley's? Cookesley was a good fellow! Oh,
capital! How well he behaved when there was that row about our going out
with the hounds? Do you remember Vere's face? It makes me laugh now when I
think of it. I tell you who was a good fellow, Kangaroo Gray; I liked him.
I don't know any fellow who sang a better song!'

'By the bye,' said Coningsby, 'what sort of fellow is Eustace Lyle? I
rather liked his look.'

'Oh! I will tell you all about him,' said Lord Henry. 'He is a great ally
of mine, and I think you will like him very much. It is a Roman Catholic
family, about the oldest we have in the county, and the wealthiest. You
see, Lyle's father was the most violent ultra Whig, and so were all
Eustace's guardians; but the moment he came of age, he announced that he
should not mix himself up with either of the parties in the county, and
that his tenantry might act exactly as they thought fit. My father thinks,
of course, that Lyle is a Conservative, and that he only waits the
occasion to come forward; but he is quite wrong. I know Lyle well, and he
speaks to me without disguise. You see 'tis an old Cavalier family, and
Lyle has all the opinions and feelings of his race. He will not ally
himself with anti-monarchists, and democrats, and infidels, and
sectarians; at the same time, why should he support a party who pretend to