"He seemed a very intelligent person," said Lord de Mowbray with many smiles.
"Yes," said Mr Trafford; "he has great talents and great integrity. I would trust him with anything and to any amount. All I wish," he added, with a smile and in a lower tone to Lady de Mowbray, "all I wish is, that he was not quite so fond of politics."
"Is he very violent?" enquired her ladyship in a sugary tone.
"Too violent," said Mr Trafford, "and wild in his ideas."
"And yet I suppose," said Lord Milford, "he must be very well off?"
"Why I must say for him it is not selfishness that makes him a malcontent," said Mr Trafford; "he bemoans the condition of the people."
"If we are to judge of the condition of the people by what we see here," said Lord de Mowbray, "there is little to lament in it. But I fe
