to him about the necklace; but she was cautious, and thought of
it, and found that it would be better that she should abstain. John
Eustace was certainly very good-natured, but perhaps he might say
an ugly word to her if she were rash. She refrained, therefore, and
after breakfast on the second day he took his departure without an
allusion to things that were unpleasant.

"I call my brother-in-law a perfect gentleman," said Lizzie with
enthusiasm, when his back was turned.

"Certainly," said Mrs. Carbuncle. "He seems to me to be very quiet."

"He didn't quite like his party," said Lord George.

"I am sure he did," said Lizzie.

"I mean as to politics. To him we are all turbulent demagogues
and Bohemians. Eustace is an old-world Tory, if there's one left
anywhere. But you're right, Lady Eustace; he is a gentleman."

"He knows on which side his bread is buttered as well as any man,"
said Sir Griffin.

"Am I a demagogue," said Lizzie, appealing to the Corsair, "or a
Bohemian? I didn't know it."

"A little in that way, I think, Lady Eustace;--not a demagogue, but
demagognical;--not a Bohemian, but that way given."

"And is Miss Roanoke demagognical?"

"Certainly," said Lord George. "I hardly wrong you there, Miss
Roanoke?"

"Lucinda is a democrat, but hardly a demagogue, Lord George," said
Mrs. Carbuncle.

"Those are distinctions which we hardly understand on this
thick-headed side of the water. But demagogues, democrats,
demonstrations, and Demosthenic oratory are all equally odious to
John Eustace. For a young man he's about the best Tory I know."

"He is true to his colours," said Mr. Emilius, who had been
endeavouring to awake the attention of Miss Roanoke on the subject of
Shakespeare's dramatic action, "and I like men who are true to their
colours." Mr. Emilius spoke with the slightest possible tone of a
foreign accent,--a tone so slight that it simply served to attract
attention to him.

While Eustace was still in the house, there had come a letter from
Frank Greystock, saying that he would reach Portray, by way of
Glasgow, on Wednesday, the 5th of November. He must sleep in Glasgow
on that night, having business, or friends, or pleasure demanding his
attention in that prosperous mart of commerce. It had been impressed
upon him that he should hunt, and he had consented. There was to be
a meet out on the Kilmarnock side of the county on that Wednesday,
and he would bring a horse with him from Glasgo