'
Then the Duke gave his son a somewhat lengthy political lecture,
which was intended to teach him that the greatest benefit of the
greatest number was the object to which all political studies
should tend. The son listened with attention, and when it was
over, expressed his opinion that there was a great deal in what
his father had said. 'I trust, if you will consider it,' said the
Duke, 'that you will not find yourself obliged to desert the
school of politics in which your father has not been an inactive
supporter, and to which your family has belonged for many years.'
'I could not call myself a Liberal,' said the young politician.
'Why not?'
'Because I am a Conservative.'
'And you won't stand for the county on the Liberal interest?'
'I should be obliged to tell them that I should always give a
Conservative vote.'
'Then you refuse to do as I ask?'
'I do not know how I can help refusing it. If you wanted me to
grow a couple of inches taller, I couldn't do it, even though I
should be ever so anxious to oblige you.'
'But a very young man, as you are, may have so much deference for
his elders as to be induced to believe that he has been in error.
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