'It is too much,' said her Grace.
'And done in such a handsome manner!' said the duke.
'I would not tell our dear child of it at this moment,' said the
duchess; 'he has so much to go through!'
'You are right, Kate. It will keep till the celebration is over. How
delighted he will be!'
'My dear George, I sometimes think we are too happy.'
'You are not half as happy as you deserve to be,' replied her husband,
looking up with a smile of affection; and then he finished his reply to
the letter of Mr. Hungerford, one of the county members, informing
the duke, that now Lord Montacute was of age, he intended at once to
withdraw from Parliament, having for a long time fixed on the majority
of the heir of the house of Bellamont as the signal for that event. 'I
accepted the post,' said Mr. Hungerford, 'much against my will. Your
Grace behaved to me at the time in the handsomest manner, and, indeed,
ever since, with respect to this subject. But a Marquis of Montacute is,
in my opinion, and, I believe I may add, in that of the whole county,
our proper representative; besides, we want young blood in the House.'
'It certainly is done in the handsomest manner,' said the duke.
'But then you know, George, you behaved to him in the handsomest manner;
he says so, as you do indeed to everybody; and this is your reward.
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