What if
Charles Egremont were to get the place which she had projected
for Frederick or Augustus? What if Lord Marney became master
of the horse? Or Lord Deloraine went again to Ireland? In
her nervous excitement she credited all these catastrophes;
seized upon "the Duke" in order that Lady Deloraine might not
gain his ear, and resolved to get home as soon as possible, in
order that she might write without a moment's loss of time to
Sir Robert.
"They will hardly go out without making some peers," said Sir
Vavasour Firebrace to Mr Jermyn.
"Why they have made enough."
"Hem! I know Tubbe Swete has a promise, and so has Cockawhoop.
I don't think Cockawhoop could show again at Boodle's without
a coronet."
"I don't see why these fellows should go out," said Mr Ormsby.
"What does it signify whether ministers have a majority of
five, or ten or twenty? In my time, a proper majority was a
third of the House. That was Lord Liverpool's majority. Lord
Monmouth used to say that there were ten families in this
country who, if they could only agree, could always share the
government. Ah! those were the good old times! We never had
adjourned debates then; but sate it out like gentlemen who had
been used all their lives to be up all night, and then supped
at Watier's afterwards.
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