[Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope]@TWC D-Link bookPhineas Finn CHAPTER XVIII 2/13
I wonder whether it's improper? I shouldn't like to be the means of injuring the British Constitution." "Perhaps if you resign soon, and if nobody follows your example, grave evil results may be avoided." "I sincerely hope so, for I do love the British Constitution; and I love also the respect in which members of the English Cabinet are held.
Now Turnbull, who will be here in a moment, hates it all; but he is a rich man, and has more powdered footmen hanging about his house than ever Lord Palmerston had himself." "He is still in business." "Oh yes;--and makes his thirty thousand a year.
Here he is.
How are you, Turnbull? We were talking about my maid-servant.
I hope she opened the door for you properly." "Certainly,--as far as I perceived," said Mr.Turnbull, who was better at a speech than a joke.
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