"
"Ah! my dear Ormsby," said Mr Berners, "do not mention
Watier's; you make my mouth water."
"Shall you stand for Birmingham, Ormsby, if there be a
dissolution?" said Lord Fitz-Heron.
"I have been asked," said Mr Ormsby; "but the House of Commons
is not the House of Commons of my time, and I have no wish to
re-enter it. If I had a taste for business, I might be a
member of the Marylebone vestry."
"All I repeat," said Lord Marney to his mother, as he rose
from the sofa where he had been some time in conversation with
her, "that if there be any idea that I wish Lady Marney should
be a lady in waiting, it is an error, Lady Deloraine. I wish
that to be understood. I am a domestic man, and I wish Lady
Marney to be always with me; and what I want I want for
myself. I hope in arranging the household the domestic
character of every member of it will be considered. After all
that has occurred the country expects that."
"But my dear George, I think it is really premature--"
"I dare say it is; but I recommend you, my dear mother, to be
alive. I heard Lady St Julians just now in the supper room
asking the Duke to promise her that her Augustus should be a
Lord of the Admiralty.
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