The same mock truths
are spoken. The same wrong reasons are given. The same personal
motives are at work."
"And yet, of all believers in Parliament, you used to be the most
faithful."
"One has time to think of things, Lady Laura, when one lies in
Newgate. It seems to me to be an eternity of time since they locked
me up. And as for that trial, which they tell me lasted a week, I
look back at it till the beginning is so distant that I can hardly
remember it. But I have resolved that I will never talk of it again.
Lady Chiltern is out probably."
"Yes;--she and Oswald are dining with the Baldocks."
"She is well?"
"Yes;--and most anxious to see you. Will you go to their place in
September?"
He had almost made up his mind that if he went anywhere in September
he would go to Matching Priory, accepting the offer of the Duchess
of Omnium; but he did not dare to say so to Lady Laura, because she
would have known that Madame Goesler also would be there. And he had
not as yet accepted the invitation, and was still in doubt whether he
would not escape by himself instead of attempting to return into the
grooves of society.
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