Kenelm Chillingly, Book 4.

h other. It is scarcely possible to conceive a greater contrast outwardly than that between the two Chill

wer that he could not fairly estimate, but against which his own power would be strongly tasked to contend. So might exchange looks a thorough-bred deer-hound and a half-bred mastiff: the bystander could scarcely doubt which was the

kind of deference which a well-born cadet owes to the destined head of his house. "I cannot conceive

f an Italian singer. He seemed an embodied Journal, including the Leading Article, the Law Reports, Foreign Intelligence, the Court Circular, down to the Births, Deaths, and Marriages. Gordon from time to time interrupted this flow of soul with brief, trenchant remarks, which evinced his own knowled

elong, he belonged to himself alone, but to appropinquate. Mivers spoke of this chief with the greatest distrust, and in a spirit of general depreciation. Gordon a

e Londoner' towards the close of the session, which will damage him greatly, by praising him in the w

at a minister he considered so untrustworthy and dangerou

o support him would lose his seat if he d

etter to resign one's seat on the coach; perhaps one might

itician must go with his party; a veteran journalist like myself is more independ

Bills before Parliament with remarkable ability, evincing much knowledge of the subject, much cri

old, clear mind, and owned to himself that the Hous

t be obliged to defend these Bill

ngerous as the Bills are, is it not necessary that

be no dou

ro' cannot be strong enoug

musingly. "Do you think the class of

en? The aristocracy by bi

t be destroyed: it must remain as it remained in Rome and remains in France, after all efforts to extirpate it, as the most dangerous class of citizens when you deprive it of the attributes which made it the most serviceable. I am not speaking of that class; I speak of that unclassified order peculiar to England, which, no doubt, forming itself originally from the ideal standard of honour and truth suppose

e taken his departure, if Gordon had

tality and cant, often make those not intimately acquainted with them think worse of their principles than they deserve. It may be quite true that a man who goes with his party dislikes the measures he feels bound to support, and says so

the necessities of public life. It struck me that where a politician thought a

of high education, having to choose whether to accept or reject a measure forced upon their option by constituent bodies of very low education, are call

, "and I am contented to rest on it my ex

l life," said Kenelm,

it is," s

l life is a phantasmal sham. How absurd it is in philosophers to deny the exis

irits of

clouds an