Who will go with you?'
'I will ask Mr Finn to be one.'
'He will be very hard on you in the way of politics.'
'I can answer him better than I can you, sir. Mr Lupton said he
would come for a day or two. He'll stand to me.'
After that his father stopped him as he was about to leave the
room. 'One more word, Silverbridge. Do you remember what you were
saying when you walked down to the House with me from your club
that night?' Silverbridge remembered very well what he had said.
He had undertaken to ask Mabel Grex to be his wife, and had
received his father's ready approval to the proposition. But at
this moment he was unwilling to refer to the matter. 'I have
thought about it very much since that,' said the Duke. 'I may say
that I have been thinking of it every day. If there were anything
to tell me, you would let me know;--would you not?'
'Yes, sir.'
'Then there is nothing to be told? I hope you have not changed
your mind.'
Silverbridge paused a moment, trusting that he might be able to
escape the making of an answer;--but the Duke evidently intended to
have an answer.
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