“This is very unlucky,” said Randal. “I had no idea he would speak so early.”
“C——- brought him up by a direct personal attack. But follow me; perhaps I can get you into the House; and a man like you, Leslie, from whom we expect great things some day, I can tell you, should not miss any such opportunity of knowing what this House of ours is on a field-night. Come on!”
The member hurried towards the door; and as Randal followed him, a bystander cried, “That is the young man who wrote the famous pamphlet,—Egerton’s relation.”
“Oh, indeed!” said another. “Clever man, Egerton,—I am waiting for him.”
“So am I.”
“Why, you are not a constituent, as I am.”
“No; but he has been very kind to my nephew, and I must thank him. You are a constituent—he is an honour to your town.”
“So he is: enlightened man!”
“And so generous!”
“Brings forward really good measures,” quoth the politician.