"You knew I should advise it, or you would not have tortured your
intellect by those researches into Bradshaw."

"Shrewdly said," answered Lionel, laughing; "but I wished for your
sanction of my crude impressions."

"You never told me your cousin's name was Darrell: not that I should have
been much wiser if you had; but, thunder and lightning, Lionel! do you
know that your cousin Darrell is a famous man?"

LIONEL.--"Famous!--Nonsense. I suppose he was a good lawyer, for I have
heard my mother say, with a sort of contempt, that he had made a great
fortune at the bar."

VANCE.--"But he was in Parliament."

LIONEL.--"Was he? I did not know."

VANCE.--"And this is senatorial fame! You never heard your schoolfellows
talk of Mr. Darrell?--they would not have known his name if you had
boasted of it?"

LIONEL.--"Certainly not."

VANCE.--"Would your schoolfellows have known the names of Wilkie, of
Landseer, of Turner, Maclise? I speak of painters."

LIONEL.--"I should think so, indeed."