Don't suppose that I am criticizing your hospitality.

We are to be at Gatherum ourselves about the end of the month.

It will be the first time I shall have seen the place since your uncle's time." The Prime Minister at this moment was sitting in his own particular room at the Treasury Chambers, and before the entrance of his friend had been conscientiously endeavouring to define for himself, not a future policy, but the past policy of the last month or two.

It had not been for him a very happy occupation.

He had become the Head of the Government,--and had not failed, for there he was, still the Head of the Government, with a majority at his back, and the six months' vacation before him.