Sybil, Or The Two Nations

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...he has, ' said Lady St. Julians. 'One would have met him, somehow or other, in the course of two years, if he had not been married. Well, married or unmarried, with his wife, or without his wife, I shall send him a card for Wednesday.' And Lady St. Julians paused, overwhelmed as it were by the commensurate vastness of her idea and her sacrifice. 'Do not you think it would be rather sudden?' said Lady Deloraine. 'What does that signify? He will understand it; he will have gained his object; and all will be right.' 'But are you sure it is his object? We do not know the man.' 'What else can be his object?' said Lady St. Julians. 'People get into Parliament to got on; their aims are indefinite. If they have indulged in hallucinations about place before they enter the House, they are soon freed from such distempered fancies; they find they have no more talent than other people, and if they had, they learn that power, patronage, and pay are reserved for us and our friends. Well then, like practical mer, they look to some result, and they get it. They are asked out to dinner more than they would be; they move rigmarole resolutions at nonsensical public meetings; and they get invited with their women to assemblies at their leader's, where they see stars and olue ribbons, and above all, us, who, they littlft think, in appearing on such occasions, make the greatest conceivable sacrifice. Well then, of course such people are entirely in one's power, if one only had time and inclination to notice them. Yon can do anything with them. Ask them to a ball, and they will give you their votes; invite them to dinner, and, if necessary, they will rescind them; but cultivate them, remember their wives at assemblies, and call their daughters, if possible, by their...