llingly
Gordon will be her Prime Minister.

Yet while, if ever I am stung into political action, it will be by
abnegation of the Chillingly attributes, and in opposition, however
hopeless, to Chillingly Gordon, I feel that this man cannot be
suppressed, and ought to have fair play; his ambition will be infinitely
more dangerous if it become soured by delay. I propose, my dear father,
that you should have the honour of laying this clever kinsman under
an obligation, and enabling him to enter Parliament. In our last
conversation at Exmundham, you told me of the frank resentment of Gordon
_pere_, when my coming into the world shut him out from the Exmundham
inheritance; you confided to me your intention at that time to lay
by yearly a sum that might ultimately serve as a provision for Gordon
_fils_, and as some compensation for the loss of his expectations when
you realized your hope of an heir; you told me also how this generous
intention on your part had been frustrated by a natural indignation at
the elder Gordon's conduct in his harassing and costly litigation, and
by the addition you had been tempted to make to the estate in a purchase
which added to its acreage, but at a rate of interest which diminished
your own income, and precluded the possibility of further savings. Now,
chancing to meet your lawyer, Mr. Vining, the other day, I learned from
him that it had been long a wish which your delicacy prevented your
naming to me, that I, to whom the fee-simple descends, should join with
you in cutting off the entail and resettling the estate. He showed me
what an advantage this would be to the property, because it would leave
your hands free for many improvements in which I heartily go with the
progress of the age, for which, as merely tenant for life, you could not
raise the money except upon ruinous terms; new cottages for labourers,
new buildings for tenants, the consolidation of some old mortgages and
charges on the rent-roll, etc. And allow me to add that I should like
to make a large increase to the jointure of my dear mother. Vining says,
too, that there is a part of the outlying land which, as being near a
town, could be sold to considerable profit if the estate were resettled.

Let us hasten to complete the necessary deeds, and so obtain the L20,000
required for the realization of your noble and, let me add, your just
desire to do something for Chillingly Gordon. In the new deeds of
settlement we could insure t