"
"Not until the compensation was settled," innocently remarked
Lady Marney; "George never opposes them after that. He gave
up all opposition to the Marham line when they agreed to his
terms."
"And yet," said Lord de Mowbray, "I think if Lord Marney would
take a different view of the case and look to the moral
consequences, he would hesitate. Equality, Lady Marney,
equality is not our m‚tier. If we nobles do not make a stand
against the levelling spirit of the age, I am at a loss to
know who will fight the battle. You many depend upon it that
these railroads are very dangerous things."
"I have no doubt of it. I suppose you have heard of Lady
Vanilla's trip from Birmingham? Have you not, indeed! She
came up with Lady Laura, and two of the most gentlemanlike men
sitting opposite her; never met, she says, two more
intelligent men. She begged one of them at Wolverhampton to
change seats with her, and he was most politely willing to
comply with her wishes, only it was necessary that his
companion should move at the same time, for they were chained
together! Two of the swell mob, sent to town for picking a
pocket at Shrewsbury races."
"A countess and a felon! So much for public conveyances,"
said Lord Mowbray.
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