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 "You rather patronize Vivida, I think, Grey?"

"Patronize him! he's my political pet!"

"And yet Kerrison tells me, you reviewed the Suffolk Papers in the Edinburgh."

"So I did—what of that? I defended them in Blackwood."

"This, then, is the usual method of you literary gentlemen. Thank God! I never could write a line."

"York House rises proudly—if York House be its name."

"This confounded Catholic Question is likely to give us a great deal of trouble. Grey. It's perfect madness for us to advocate the cause the 'six millions of hereditary bondsmen;' and yet, with not only the Marchese, but even Courtown and Beaconsfield committed, it is, to say the least, a very delicate business."

"Very delicate, certainly; but there are some precedents, I shrewdly suspect, Cleve-