[24] Such, and not the usually quoted “tu l’as voulu,” are Molière’s actual words.
[25] Thackeray (Macmillan, pp. 48, 49).
[26] The fact thus referred to by Trollope was this. At the time of his own failure for Beverley the author of Eothen was coming in for Bridgewater, but was promptly unseated on petition, the borough itself being, like Beverley, disfranchised a little later.
[27] Some of these names were celebrated in verses that Trollope loved to quote:
“Mr. Leech made a speech;
Learned, terse, and strong.
Mr. Hart on the other part,
Was glib and neat, but wrong.
Mr. Parker made that darker,
Which was dark enough without.
Mr. Cook cited a book,
The Chancellor said, ‘I doubt.’”
[28] Such cases of a state official’s temporary return to a department which he had finally left are quite exceptional. The best known, perhaps, is that of Sir Robert Herbert, who was permanent Under Secretary at the Colonial Office from 1873-1892, was succeeded in that capacity by Hon. R. Meade, but, on Meade’s death, returned for a time to his old room at the Colonial Office till Mr. Meade’s place was permanently filled. In the same year Mr. A. W. Moore retired from the India Office in or about 1880, and reappeared in it after an interval of five years as private secretary to the Indian Minister, Lord Randolph Churchill.
[29] The courtesy of Mr. J. Henry Harper enables me to show exactly how this sum was made up:—
| £ | ||||
| Mar. | 1, | 1859. | The Bertrams | 25 |
| May | 29, | 1860. | Castle Richmond | 50 |
| 1867. | The Claverings (Cornhill) | |||
| Mar. | 12, | 1872. | The Golden Lion of Granpere | 250 |
| 1874. | Lady Anna | 200 | ||
| Oct. | 25, | 1866. | The Last Chronicle of Barset | 150 |
| Dec. | 31, | 1868. | Phineas Finn | 100 |
| May | 30, | 1872. | The Eustace Diamonds | 200 |
| Feb. | 7, | 1861, | and Apr. 15, 1862. Orley Farm | 200 |
| Sept. | 23, | 1863. | Rachel Ray | 50 |
| Jan. | 19, | 1871. | Ralph the Heir | 200 |
| 1870. | Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite (Plates, &c.) | 750 | ||
| Oct. | 13, | 1859. | West Indies, &c. | 30 |
| Aug. | 31, | 1859. | Relics of General Chassé, &c. | 40 |
| Mar. | 13, | 1874. | Phineas Redux | 50 |
| Mar. | 13, | 1874. | Harry Heathcote of Gangoil | 50 |
| Apr. | 18, | 1860. | The O’Conors of Castle Conor | 40 |
| Sept. | 29, | 1875. | The Way We Live Now (and Electros) | 200 |
| Feb. | 7 | and Mar. 10, 1876. | The Prime Minister | 175 |
| May | 19, | 1877. | The American Senator | 70 |
| Apr. | 26, | 1878. | Is He Popenjoy? | 20 |
| June | 24, | 1878. | The Lady of Launay | 10 |
| July | 2, | 1880. | The Duke’s Children | 10 |
| Dec. | 2, | 1880. | Dr. Wortle’s School | 10 |
| Dec. | 28, | 1880. | Life of Cicero | 100 |
| July | 20, | 1881. | Ayala’s Angel | 10 |
| Mar. | 15, | 1882. | The Fixed Period | 10 |
| May | 16, | 1882. | Kept in the Dark | 50 |
| Oct. | 10, | 1882. | The Two Heroines of Plumplington | 10 |
| July | 30, | 1883. | Mr. Scarborough’s Family | 10 |
| June | 13, | 1884. | An Old Man’s Love | 10 |
| £3080 |
[30] Trollope’s colonial novels, Harry Heathcote of Gangoil and John Caldigate, were both written after his Australasian journey.
[31] The Merchant of Venice, Act v, Scene 1.