John Galsworthy

“ Some relief to the strain of his anxiety, however, was afforded in July by the unexpected accession of his friend —— to a peerage, through the death of a cousin. The estate attached was considerable. He felt that this friend at all events would not continue to struggle; being English he would surely recognize that he was removed from active life. His premonition was correct; and his friend —— —— and himself were left to fight it out alone. That Judge who had so long been expected to quit his Judgeship, did so for another world in the fourth week of the Long Vacation. ”

“ It cannot be pretended that he liked them; to like them one would have to take a profound and as it were amateurish interest in Equity, and the lives of one's fellow men. For this of course he had not time, having to devote all his energies to not having his judgments reversed, and watching the judgments of his friend —— ——. ”

“ After a week's indisposition, he reset his teeth and decided to struggle on; his friend —— —— was not Lord Chancellor yet. Two more years passed, during which he undermined his health by dining constantly in the highest social and political circles, and delivering longer and weightier judgments every day. His wife and children, who still had access to him at times, watched him with anxiety. ”

“ A moderate man stood perhaps the greater chance of steady and perpetual preferment, and he felt moderate, now that the spur of a necessary political activity was removed. It was a constant source of uneasiness to him that his friend —— —— had become such a dark horse that one could find out nothing about his political convictions ”

“ Not two years had elapsed, before it became clear to him that to keep his place he must enter Parliament. And against his own natural affection, against even the inclinations of his country, he secured a seat at the General Election, and began sitting. What, then, was his chagrin to find that his friend ——, and his friend ——, ad even his friend —— ——, had also secured seals, and were sitting when he got there! With sitting in the Courts, and sitting in the House, he became lean and very yellow; and his wife complained. He determined to give her a child every year to keep her quiet ”