Phineas Redux

nd had put on smoking caps,-Lord Chiltern, indeed, having clothed himself in a wonderful Chinese dressing-gown, and they were sittin

verything in two minute

rubbing his hands as he walked about the room. "Can't you fancy all that she'd

de Miss Bore

er than they were at home," said the

old

see Sister Veronica?

once," said

on," said the husband. "You should hear Gerard Maule

t her friend, and Phineas was almost sure that Gerard

ly of mine," sai

to hounds," said Lord Chiltern, "and who v

Lord Chiltern,"

enty of horses, and nothing else to do, and rides twelve stone, and doesn't care how he's sworn

of Oswald's. He is to be here to-morrow, and

l as you do, Violet. But Mr. Maule is so har

so sure," said Lady Chiltern.

Tankerville on the tenth. He rode Lord Chiltern's horses, and took an interest in the hounds, and nursed t

he young man that is dy

on, Mr. Finn, without mak

sent moment to say all good things of him. At such a crisis it would be wic

t I tell everything

I take him to be a good sort of a fello

's ju

ommend them to nobody. A man can't suppose that he'll gain anything by pretending that he never reads, and never thinks, and never does anything, and never speaks, and doesn't care what he has for dinner

r rose colo

cy, Lady Chiltern. I s

ty is not large, and I'm afraid

no pro

is independent of his father. He has nothing on earth to do. Adelaide's whole fo

't be enough

have the property some day,-if only he had some

uldn't become a

ll-natured

I did not indeed. You m

me when I wished that he should take to Parliament. No one knew all

fferent,

oes work hard. No man works harder. The learned people say that you should produce something, and I don't

nk that I mean

ope

s father on go

m to go to Saulsby, but he won

long to this Lord Chiltern, and Phineas, as he heard this, remembered former days in which he had ridd

him altered, Mr. Finn. He is quite an old man now. He was here in the spring, for a week or two;-in England, tha

she

to him. Though they were true, or at least meant to be true, they were full of flattery. Why should this woman of whom they were speaking love him so dearly? She was nothing to him. She was highly born, greatly gifted, wealthy, and a married woman, whose character, as he well knew, was beyond the taint of suspicion, though she had been driven by the hard sullenness of her husband to refuse to live under his roof. Phineas F

en think of her?"

ed, I

orgave you! How hard she fought for you! Now, though she

Lady L

uch shipwreck it makes a woman doubt

a good man. She

n altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so. Look at this Mr. Maule, who is really over head and ears in love with Adelaid

are to be

earnest. Girls will accept men simply because they think it ill

se she l

she positively dislikes him. But why should she like him? He is good-looking, is a gentleman,

epted who is not cre

spect to some part of his character. I can f

are not in love with

he admitted to himself that the pleasure which he had received during his visit was quite sufficient to qualify him in running any risk