Page:Vivian Grey, Volume 1.djvu/110

 Vivian had not much difficulty in collecting his ideas, and he proceeded, not as displeased as his Lordship, with the domestic scena.

"I need not remind your Lordship, that the two great parties into which this State is divided, are apparently very unequally proportioned. Your Lordship well knows how the party to which your Lordship is said to belong, your Lordship knows, I imagine, how that is constituted. We have nothing to do with the other. My Lord, I must speak out. No thinking man,—and such, I trust, Vivian Grey is,—no thinking man can for a moment suppose, that your Lordship's heart is very warm in the cause of a party, which—for I will not mince my words—has betrayed you. How is it, it is asked by thinking men, how is it that the Marquess of Carabas is—the tool of a faction?"

The Marquess breathed loud, "they say so, do they?"

"Why, ray Lord, listen even to your