I'd go and nurse the foxes myself if I knew
how, wouldn't I, Marie?"
"They have robbed the Duchess of her sleep for the last six months,"
said Madame Goesler.
"And if they go on being not properly brought up and educated,
they'll make an old woman of me. As for the Duke, he can't be
comfortable in his arithmetic for thinking of them. But what can one
do?"
"Change your keepers," said Lord Chiltern energetically.
"It is easy to say,--change your keepers. How am I to set about it?
To whom can I apply to appoint others? Don't you know what vested
interests mean, Lord Chiltern?"
"Then nobody can manage his own property as he pleases?"
"Nobody can,--unless he does the work himself. If I were to go and
live in Trumpeton Wood I could do it; but you see I have to live
here. I vote that we have an officer of State, to go in and out with
the Government,--with a seat in the Cabinet or not according as
things go, and that we call him Foxmaster-General. It would be just
the thing for Mr. Finn."
"There would be a salary, of course," said Phineas.
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