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'How well you did it!'
'Too well. I felt that. So well that, unless I had stopped it, I
shouldn't have been able to say a word to you all through dinner. Your
laughter clenched it, and Buonarosci and I will be grateful to you for
ever.'
After the ladies went there was rather a bad half hour for Mr Glascock.
He was button-holed by the minister, and found it oppressive before he
was enabled to escape into the drawing-room. 'Mr Glascock,' said the
minister, 'an English gentleman, sir, like you, who has the privilege
of an hereditary seat in your parliament'--Mr Glascock was not quite sure
whether he were being accused of having an hereditary seat in the House
of Commons, but he would not stop to correct any possible error on that
point--'and who has been born to all the gifts of fortune, rank, and
social eminence, should never think that his education is complete till
he has visited our great cities in the west.' Mr Glascock hinted that
he by no means conceived his education to be complete; but the minister
went on without attending to this.


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