You will find it difficult to sit and wait for business in a
Vice-Chancellor's Court, after having had Vice-Chancellors, or men
as big as Vice-Chancellors, to wait upon you."
"I do not think much of that."
"But others would think of it, and you would find that there were
difficulties. But you are not thinking of it in earnest?"
"Yes, in earnest."
"Why so? I should have thought that every day had removed you
further and further from any such idea."
"The ground I'm on at present is so slippery."
"Well, yes. I can understand that. But yet it is less slippery than
it used to be."
"Ah;--you do not exactly see. What if I were to lose my seat?"
"You are safe at least for the next four years, I should say."
"Ah;--no one can tell. And suppose I took it into my head to differ
from the Government?"
"You must not do that. You have put yourself into a boat with these
men, and you must remain in the boat. I should have thought all that
was easy to you."
"It is not so easy as it seems. The very necessity of sitting still
in the boat is in itself irksome,--very irksome. And then there comes
some crisis in which a man cannot sit still."
"Is there any such crisis at hand now?"
"I cannot say that;--but I am beginning to find that sitting still is
very disagreeable to me.
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