What might be done in the way of amendments
there he had hitherto refused to consider. "If the peers choose to put
themselves in opposition to the whole nation, on a purely commercial
question, the responsibility of all evils that may follow must be at their
doors." This he had said as a commoner. A year or two at the furthest--or
more probably a few months--would make him a peer; and then no doubt he
would look at the matter in a wholly different light. But he worked at his
great measure with a diligence which at any rate deserved success; and he
now had with him a whole bevy of secretaries, private secretaries, chief
clerks, and accountants, all of whom Lady Glencora captivated by her
flattering ways and laughed at behind their backs. Mr. Bonteen was there
with his wife, repeatedly declaring to all his friends that England would
achieve the glories of decimal coinage by his blood and over his grave,
and Barrington Erle, who took things much more easily, and Lord Chiltern,
with his wife, who would occasionally ask her if she could explain to him
the value of a quint, and many others whom it may not be necessary to
name.
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