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'Does your cousin like Vienna?'
'Not at all. He is a regular John Bull; and, if I am to judge from his
correspondence, he will make an excellent ambassador in one sense, for
I think his fidelity and his patriotism may be depended on. We seldom
serve those whom we do not love; and, if I am to believe Arundel, there
is neither a person nor a place on the whole Continent that affords him
the least satisfaction.'
'How singular, then, that he should have fixed on such a _metier_; but,
I suppose, like other young men, his friends fixed for him?'
'Not at all. No step could be less pleasing to my father than his
leaving England; but Arundel is quite unmanageable, even by papa. He is
the oddest but the dearest person in the world!'
'He is very clever, is he not?'
'I think so. I have no doubt he will distinguish himself, whatever
career he runs; but he is so extremely singular in his manner that I do
not think his general reputation harmonises with my private opinion.'
'And will his visit to England be a long one?'
'I hope that it will be a permanent one. I, you know, am his confidant,
and entrusted with all his plans.
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