Greystock was the very man who had attacked him, Lord Fawn, in
the House of Commons respecting the Sawab--making the attack quite
personal--and that without a shadow of a cause! Within the short straight
grooves of Lord Fawn's intellect the remembrance of this supposed wrong
was always running up and down, renewing its own soreness. He regarded
Greystock as an enemy who would lose no opportunity of injuring him. In
his weakness and littleness he was quite unable to judge of other men by
himself. He would not go a hair's breadth astray, if he knew it; but
because Greystock had, in debate, called him timid and tyrannical, he
believed that Greystock would stop short of nothing that might injure him.
And yet he must appeal to Greystock. He did appeal, and in answer to his
appeal Frank came to him at the India House. But Frank, before he saw Lord
Fawn, had, as was fitting, been with his cousin.
Nothing was decided at this interview. Lord Fawn became more than ever
convinced that the member for Bobsborough was his determined enemy, and
Frank was more convinced than ever that Lord Fawn was an empty, stiff-
necked, self-sufficient prig.
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