If it goes on it will drive me mad.

I shall have to give up everything, because I cannot bear the burden." This he said with more excitement, with stronger passion, than his friend had ever seen in him before; so much so that the old Duke was frightened.

"I ought never to have been where I am," said the Prime Minister, getting up from his chair and walking about the room.
"Allow me to assure you that in that you are decidedly mistaken," said his Grace of St.Bungay.
"I cannot make even you see the inside of my heart in such a matter as this," said his Grace of Omnium.
"I think I do.

It may be that in saying so I claim for myself greater power than I possess, but I think I do.

But let your heart say what it may on the subject, I am sure of this,--that when the Sovereign, by the advice of two outgoing Ministers, and with the unequivocally expressed assent of the House of Commons, calls on a man to serve her and the country, that man cannot be justified in refusing, merely by doubts about his own fitness.