nd had put on smoking caps,-Lord Chiltern, indeed, having clothed himself in a wonderful Chinese dressing-gown, and they were sittin
verything in two minute
rubbing his hands as he walked about the room. "Can't you fancy all that she'd
de Miss Bore
er than they were at home," said the
old
see Sister Veronica?
once," said
on," said the husband. "You should hear Gerard Maule
t her friend, and Phineas was almost sure that Gerard
ly of mine," sai
to hounds," said Lord Chiltern, "and who v
Lord Chiltern,"
enty of horses, and nothing else to do, and rides twelve stone, and doesn't care how he's sworn
of Oswald's. He is to be here to-morrow, and
l as you do, Violet. But Mr. Maule is so har
so sure," said Lady Chiltern.
Tankerville on the tenth. He rode Lord Chiltern's horses, and took an interest in the hounds, and nursed t
he young man that is dy
on, Mr. Finn, without mak
sent moment to say all good things of him. At such a crisis it would be wic
t I tell everything
I take him to be a good sort of a fello
's ju
ommend them to nobody. A man can't suppose that he'll gain anything by pretending that he never reads, and never thinks, and never does anything, and never speaks, and doesn't care what he has for dinner
r rose colo
cy, Lady Chiltern. I s
ty is not large, and I'm afraid
no pro
is independent of his father. He has nothing on earth to do. Adelaide's whole fo
't be enough
have the property some day,-if only he had some
uldn't become a
ll-natured
I did not indeed. You m
me when I wished that he should take to Parliament. No one knew all
fferent,
oes work hard. No man works harder. The learned people say that you should produce something, and I don't
nk that I mean
ope
s father on go
m to go to Saulsby, but he won
long to this Lord Chiltern, and Phineas, as he heard this, remembered former days in which he had ridd
him altered, Mr. Finn. He is quite an old man now. He was here in the spring, for a week or two;-in England, tha
she
to him. Though they were true, or at least meant to be true, they were full of flattery. Why should this woman of whom they were speaking love him so dearly? She was nothing to him. She was highly born, greatly gifted, wealthy, and a married woman, whose character, as he well knew, was beyond the taint of suspicion, though she had been driven by the hard sullenness of her husband to refuse to live under his roof. Phineas F
en think of her?"
ed, I
orgave you! How hard she fought for you! Now, though she
Lady L
uch shipwreck it makes a woman doubt
a good man. She
n altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so. Look at this Mr. Maule, who is really over head and ears in love with Adelaid
are to be
earnest. Girls will accept men simply because they think it ill
se she l
she positively dislikes him. But why should she like him? He is good-looking, is a gentleman,
epted who is not cre
spect to some part of his character. I can f
are not in love with
he admitted to himself that the pleasure which he had received during his visit was quite sufficient to qualify him in running any risk