“Not in the least. I have but one ambition.” “And that is — ?” “To be the serviceable slave of my country.”… — Anthony Trollope
“Not in the least. I have but one ambition.”
“And that is — ?”
“To be the serviceable slave of my country.”
“A master is more serviceable than a slave,” said the old man.
“No; no; I deny it. I can admit much from you, but I cannot admit that. The politician who becomes the master of his country sinks from the statesman to the tyrant.”
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No doubt there were other first cousins as badly off, or perhaps worse, as to whom the Duchess would care nothing whether they were rich or poor, — married or single; but then they were first cousins who had not had the advantage of interesting the Duchess.
“Isn‘t there some trouble about money?”
“They wouldn‘t be very rich, Duchess.”
“What a blessing for them! But then, perhaps, they‘d be very poor.”
“They would be rather poor.”
“Which is not a blessing.”
The natural man will probably be manly. The affected man cannot be so.
