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50 HAlS GRACE. that their Radicalism is only skin-deep. Still you must take them the right way.if you want todo any good with them.” “ T haven’t spoken to them about that sort of thing,”’ answered Hurstbourne; ‘ but perhaps, if I had, I shouldn’t have tried to convert them from what you call Radicalism.” | “My dear fellow, you surely don’t mean to say that you yourself are a Radical. That would be very funny.” “ Would it? Well, I don’t suppose I am so funny as that. I have always been a Liberal, like the rest of our family,” said Hurstbourne, who, I am sure, had never in his life been guilty of holding any political opinions whatsoever. “The rest of our family? Oh, if you mean my uncle, I can assure you that he was as good a Tory as I am; although, for the sake of old traditions, he called himself a Liberal Unionist. For my own part, I don’t think it is over wise or honest to use thin disguises ana that is why I proclaim myself openly as being what I am.” “Well, as long as you do that, nobody is likely to question your wisdom or your honesty,” remarked Hurstbourne, cutting short the harangue upon which an elderly statesman who was seated beside him had embarked. “We mustn’t begin to talk politics, or we shan’t get out of the room in time to receive the danc- ing people. What are you drinking? ” “ Port, thanks. This is the ’47 of course. I was so glad to let you have it. J have some of the same vint- age at Lavenham ; but, as I always used to tell my uncle, it hasn’t matured in ‘he same way. I only wish it had!” Gomichboo cS (El) m