To sit on some high seat among his countrymen and also to marry Lucy
Morris, that would be a high ambition. He had chosen his way now, and she
was engaged to be his wife.
As he thought of it after he had done it, it was not all happiness, all
contentment with him. He did feel that he had crippled himself--impeded
himself in running the race, as it were with a log round his leg. He had
offered to marry her, and he must do so at once, or almost at once,
because she could now find no other home but his. He knew, as well as did
Lady Fawn, that she could not go into another family as governess; and he
knew also that she ought not to remain in Lady Fawn's house an hour longer
than she should be wanted there. He must alter his plan of living at once,
give up the luxury of his rooms at the Grosvenor, take a small house
somewhere, probably near the Swiss Cottage, come up and down to his
chambers by the underground railway, and in all probability abandon
Parliament altogether. He was not sure whether in good faith he should not
at once give notice of his intended acceptance of the Chiltern Hundreds to
the electors of Bobsborough.
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