Loyalty was second nature to him, and the power of submitting to defeat without either shame or sorrow had become perfect with him by long practice.

He would have made his brother Duke such as he was himself,--had not his brother Duke been so lamentably thin-skinned.
"I suppose we must try it for another Session ?" said the Duke of Omnium with a lachrymose voice.
"Of course we must,--and for others after that, I both hope and trust," said the Duke of St.Bungay, getting up.

"If I don't go up-stairs I shall be late, and then her Grace will look at me with unforgiving eyes." On the following day after lunch the Prime Minister took a walk with Lady Rosina De Courcy.

He had fallen into a habit of walking with Lady Rosina almost every day of his life, till the people in the Castle began to believe that Lady Rosina was the mistress of some deep policy of her own.

For there were many there who did in truth think that statecraft could never be absent from a minister's mind, day or night.