“He only bowed—archly enough, I assure you.”
“Did I fancy, or was it fact, that you were a flapper to Mr. Burke, when Mr. Law charged him with disingenuity, in not having recanted the accusation concerning Devy Sing? He appeared to me in much perturbation, and I thought by his see-saw he was going to interrupt the speech: did you prevent him?”
“No, no,” he answered, “I did not; I did not think him in any danger.”
He rubbed his cheek, though, as he spoke, as if he did not much like that circumstance. O that Mr. Burke—so great, so noble a creature—can in this point thus have been warped.
MR. WINDHAM ON THE FRENCH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.
I ran off to another scene, and inquired how he had been amused abroad, and, in particular, at the National Assembly?
“Indeed,” he answered, “it was extremely curious for a short time; but there is little variety in it, and therefore it will not do long.”
I was in a humour to be just as sincere here, as about the trial; so you democrats must expect no better.