He would never, however, come across into the
other House, without letting his son know of his coming, and Lord
Silverbridge had on this occasion been on the look out, and had
come up to his father at once. 'Don't let me take you away,' said
the Duke, 'if you are particularly interested in your Chief's
defence,' for Sir Timothy Beeswax was defending some measure of
legal reform in which he was said to have fallen into trouble.
'I can hear it up here you know, sir.'
'Hardly if you are talking to me.'
'To tell the truth it's a matter I don't much care about. They've
got into some mess as to the number of Judges and what they ought
to do. Finn was saying that they had so arranged that there was
one Judge who never could possibly do anything.'
'If Mr Finn said so it would probably be so, with some allowance
for Irish exaggeration. He is a clever man, with less of his
country's hyperbole than others;--but still not without his share.'
'You know him well, I suppose.'
'Yes;--as one man does know another in the political world.'
'But he is a friend of yours? I don't mean an "honourable friend",
which is great bosh; but you know him at home.
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