Greystock was
too bad."
"There's nothing these fellows won't say or do," exclaimed Lord Fawn. "I
can't understand it myself. When I've been in opposition, I never did that
kind of thing."
"I wonder whether it was because he is angry with mamma," said Miss Fawn.
Everybody who knew the Fawns knew that Augusta Fawn was not clever, and
that she would occasionally say the very thing that ought not to be said.
"Oh, dear, no," said the Under-Secretary, who could not endure the idea
that the weak women-mind of his family should have, in any way, an
influence on the august doings of Parliament.
"You know mamma did----"
"Nothing of that kind at all," said his lordship, putting down his sister
with great authority. "Mr. Greystock is simply not an honest politician.
That is about the whole of it. He chose to attack me because there was an
opportunity. There isn't a man in either House who cares for such things,
personally, less than I do." Had his lordship said "more than he did," he
might perhaps have been correct. "But I can't bear the feeling. The fact
is, a lawyer never understands what is and what is not fair fighting.
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