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On that evening both the young men dined at Mr Boncassen's house.
Though Tregear had been cautioned not to write to Lady Mary, and
though he was not to see her before Easter, still it was so
completely understood that he was about to become her husband,
that he was entertained in that capacity by all those who were
concerned in the family. 'And so they will all go out,' said Mr
Boncassen.
'That seems to be the general idea,' said the expectant son-in-
law. 'When two men want to be first and neither will give way,
they can't very well get on in the same boat together.' Then he
expatiated angrily on the treachery of Sir Timothy, and Tregear in
a more moderate way joined in the same opinion.
'Upon my word, young men, I doubt whether you are right,' said Mr
Boncassen. 'Whether it can be possible that a man should have
risen to such a position with so little patriotism as you
attribute to our friend, I will not pretend to say. I should think
that in England it was impossible. But of this I am sure, that the
facility which exists here for a minister or ministers to go out
of office without disturbance of the Crown, is a great blessing.
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