Your liking of him
confirmed my good opinion. I am to stay on with M. E. as long as I
will, because Mr. Hanbury-Green, she says, is not cultivated either,
and I may be of use to them both, she thinks, in the future, although
she has not imparted this to him. I do not believe I shall like
having to render his speeches erudite, because my political
convictions are all upon the other side. But something else may turn
up, and it is a comfort to know things are settled for the present.
Mr. Derringham looked so joyous as he came from her sitting-room,
after his dismissal, that I am sure he will go off at once to that
person I have often given you a hint about,--and his restoration to
health may consequently be looked upon as a certainty. I fear the
influences we shall have to live under now will not encourage that
high tone which endeavoring to keep up with Mr. Derringham and his
party entailed, and it may grow more than I can bear. The inference
to be drawn from M. E.'s defection to the other side is not
felicitous, and gives me cause for the most gloomy foreboding as to
the future of the country, because she would never have done it if
she had not received from Mr.
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