[292] Pelham, 210.
[293] Tancred, 73. Cf. the king’s speech to Popanilla; also Gerard’s observation,—“‘I have no doubt you will get through the business very well, Mr. Hoaxem, particularly if you be “frank and explicit”; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.’” Sybil, 403.
[294] Sybil, 43.
[295] In his Dickens, 81. Dickens himself admits in a letter to Macready (1855) that he has “no present political faith or hope—not a grain.”
[296] Framley Parsonage, 14.
[297] One of Our Conquerors, 3.
[298] Beauchamp’s Career, 19.
[299] Ibid., 28.
[300] The Infernal Marriage, 353. In The Young Duke there is an allusion to “the two thousand Brahmins who constitute the World,” and to “the ten or twelve or fifteen millions of Pariahs for whose existence philosophers have hitherto failed to adduce a satisfactory cause.” 132.
[301] P. 430. “Yet no entering wedge of criticism was possible, in so impervious an object. Nobody appeared to have the least idea that there was any other system, but the system, to be considered.”