He doesn't want it.

He's such a splendid looking chap to begin with.

But I'm sure his duties have a poor time! Why, he told me--me, an utter stranger!--as we went downstairs--that being a landowner was the most boring trade in the world.

He hated his tenants, and turned all the bother of them over to his agents.

"But they don't hate me"-- he said--"because I don't put the screw on.