I ventured to inquire of him as to the pursuits of his life.

He is a lord, and therefore a legislator, but he made no scruple to tell me that he never goes near the Chamber in which it is his privilege to have a seat.

But his party does not lose his support.

Though he never goes near the place, he can vote, and is enabled to trust his vote to some other more ambitious lord who does go there.

It required the absolute evidence of personal information from those who are themselves concerned to make me believe that legislation in Great Britain could be carried on after such a fashion as this! Then he told me what he does do.
All the winter he hunts and shoots, going about to other rich men's houses when there is no longer sufficient for him to shoot left on his own estate.