For now Perceval is dead there will be an immediate election; and on that election depends Catholic Emancipation.

Mr.
Halifax," turning quickly round to him, "you would be of great use to us in parliament." "Should I ?" "Will you--I like plain speaking--will you enter it ?" Enter parliament! John Halifax in parliament! His wife and I were both astounded by the suddenness of the possibility; which, however, John himself seemed to receive as no novel idea.
Lord Luxmore continued.

"I assure you nothing is more easy; I can bring you in at once, for a borough near here--my family borough." "Which you wish to be held by some convenient person till Lord Ravenel comes of age?
So Mr.Brown informed me yesterday." Lord Luxmore slightly frowned.

Such transactions, as common then in the service of the country as they still are in the service of the Church, were yet generally glossed over, as if a certain discredit attached to them.

The young lord seemed to feel it; at sound of his name he turned round to listen, and turned back again, blushing scarlet.