Such a
one cannot serve the country in Parliament, though he may possibly do
so with pen and ink in his closet."
"I wonder then that you should have asked me to come forward again
after what I did about the Irish land question," said Phineas.
"A first fault may be forgiven when the sinner has in other respects
been useful. The long and the short of it is that you must vote
with us against Daubeny's bill. Browborough sees it plainly enough.
He supported his chief in the teeth of all his protestations at
Tankerville."
"I am not Browborough."
"Nor half so good a man if you desert us," said Barrington Erle, with
anger.
"I say nothing about that. He has his ideas of duty, and I have mine.
But I will go so far as this. I have not yet made up my mind. I shall
ask advice; but you must not quarrel with me if I say that I must
seek it from some one who is less distinctly a partisan than you
are."
"From Monk?"
"Yes;--from Mr. Monk. I do think it will be bad for the country that
this measure should come from the hands of Mr.
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