[292] _Pelham_, 210. [293] _Tancred_, 73. Cf. the king’s speech to Popanilla; also Gerard’s observation,--“‘I have no doubt you will get through the business very well, Mr. Hoaxem, particularly if you be “frank and explicit”; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.’” _Sybil_, 403. [294] _Sybil_, 43. [295] In his _Dickens_, 81. Dickens himself admits in a letter to Macready (1855) that he has “no present political faith or hope--not a grain.” [296] _Framley Parsonage_, 14. [297] _One of Our Conquerors_, 3. [298] _Beauchamp’s Career_, 19. [299] _Ibid._, 28. [300] _The Infernal Marriage_, 353. In _The Young Duke_ there is an allusion to “the two thousand Brahmins who constitute the World,” and to “the ten or twelve or fifteen millions of Pariahs for whose existence philosophers have hitherto failed to adduce a satisfactory cause.” 132. [301] P. 430. “Yet no entering wedge of criticism was possible, in so impervious an object. Nobody appeared to have the least idea that there was any other system, but _the_ system, to be considered.” [302] _Never Too Late to Mend_, 286. [303] _Ibid._, 415. [304] _Never Too Late to Mend_, 360. [305] This foreshadows a similar scene in Frank Norris’s _Octopus_. [306] _Ibid._, 182. [307] _Ibid._, 345. [308] _Ibid._, 229. The antipodal point of view in _Latter Day Pamphlets_ illustrates vividly the availability of satire for either side of a cause. [309] _Orley Farm_, III, 237. [310] _The Bertrams_, 5. [311] _The Bertrams_, 8. [312] _Melincourt_, II, 10. Cf. some other clerical cognomens, Gaster, Grovelgrub; and the way in which they were lived up to. [313] _The Misfortunes of Elphin_, 65. There is a similar hit through Friar Tuck, in _Maid Marian_, 30. [314] _Book of Snobs_, 232. [315] _Framley Parsonage_, 23. On another occasion we are told that “Mrs. Proudie’s manner might have showed to a very close observer that she knew the difference between a bishop and an archdeacon.” [316] _Ibid._, 86. [317] _The Warden_, 50. [318] _The Bertrams_, 114. [319] _Ibid._, 303. [320] _Sir Harry Hotspur_, 93. [321] _Barchester Towers_, 77. [322] _The Warden_, 32. [323] Although Kingsley threw _Shirley_ aside because the opening seemed to him vulgar. Harriet Martineau said the same of _Villette_. [324] _Shirley_, I, 2. [325] _Shirley_, I, 355. [326] _Villette_, II, 186. [327] _Villette_, II, 210–11. [328] _Villette_, II, 220. [329] _Alton Locke_, 186.