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Lord Dumbello’s engagement with Griselda Grantly was the talk of the town for the next ten days. It formed, at least, one of two subjects which monopolized1 attention, the other being that dreadful rumour2, first put in motion by Tom Towers at Miss Dunstable’s party, as to a threatened dissolution of Parliament. ‘Perhaps after all, it will be the best thing for us,’ said Mr Green Walker, who felt himself to be tolerably safe at Crewe Junction3.
‘I regard it as a most wicked attempt,’ said Harold Smith, who was not equally secure in his own borough4, and to whom the expense of an election was disagreeable. ‘It is done in order that they may get the time to tide over the autumn. They won’t gain ten votes by a dissolution, and less than forty would hardly give them a majority. But they have no sense of public duty — none whatever. Indeed I don’t know who has.’
‘No, by Jove; that’s just it. That’s what my aunt Lady Hartletop says; there is no sense of duty left in the world. By the by, what an uncommon5 fool Dumbello is making himself!’ And then the conversation went off to that other topic.
Lord Lufton’s joke against himself about the willow7 branches was all very well, and nobody dreamed that his heart was sore in that matter. The world was laughing at Lord Dumbello for what it chose to call a foolish match, and Lord Lufton’s friends talked to him about it as though they had never suspected that he could have made an ass8 of himself in the same direction; but, nevertheless, he was not altogether contented9. He by no means wished to marry Griselda; he had declared himself a dozen times since he had first suspected his mother’s manoeuvres that no consideration on earth should induce him to do so; he had pronounced her to be cold,

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discretion
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parley
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nay
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intrigued
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loyalty
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justify
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demurred
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stipulation
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obstinacy
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grandeur
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avowal
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abhorrence
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salmon
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