You have lived so much out of the
world for the last thirty years that it is quite amusing."
"There are some persons' worlds that it is a great deal better for
a lady to be out of," said Mrs. Morton. Then Lady Augustus put up
her hands, and turned round, and affected to laugh, of all which
things Mr. Gotobed, who was studying English society, made notes in
his own mind.
"What sort of position does that man Goarly occupy here?" the
Senator asked immediately after dinner.
"No position at all," said Morton.
"Every man created holds some position as I take it. The land is
his own."
"He has I believe about fifty acres."
"And yet he seems to be in the lowest depth of poverty and
ignorance."
"Of course he mismanages his property and probably drinks."
"I dare say, Mr. Morton. He is proud of his rights, and talked of
his father and his grandfather, and yet I doubt whether you would
find a man so squalid and so ignorant in all the States. I suppose
he is injured by having a lord so near him."
"Quite the contrary if he would be amenable."
"You mean if he would be a creature of the lord's. And why was that
other man so uncivil to me;--the man who was the lord's
gamekeeper?"
"Because you went there as a friend of Goarly."
"And that's his idea of English fair play?" asked the Senator with
a jeer.
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