He is patron of three or four livings.' 'You are too good even to think of such a thing,' said Hammond; 'but I have set my heart upon a political career.

I must swim or sink in that sea.' Lady Maulevrier looked at him with a compassionate smile Poor young man! No doubt he thought himself a genius, and that doors which had remained shut to everybody else would turn on their hinges directly he knocked at them.

She was sincerely sorry for him.

Young, clever, enthusiastic, and doomed to bitterest disappointment.
'You have parents, perhaps, who are ambitious for you--a mother who thinks her son a heaven-born statesman!' said her ladyship, kindly.
'Alas, no! that incentive to ambition is wanting in my case.

I have neither father nor mother living.' 'That is very sad.