They
think a great deal of their position; don't let one of them ever
persuade you he doesn't, for if you were to proceed on that basis
you'd be pulled up very short."
Isabel followed her uncle's argument, which he unfolded with his
quaint distinctness, most attentively, and though she wag unacquainted
with the British aristocracy she found it in harmony with her
general impressions of human nature. But she felt moved to put in a
protest on Lord Warburton's behalf. "I don't believe Lord
Warburton's a humbug; I don't care what the others are. I should
like to see Lord Warburton put to the test."
"Heaven deliver me from my friends!" Mr. Touchett answered. "Lord
Warburton's a very amiable young man- a very fine young man. He has
a hundred thousand a year. He owns fifty thousand acres of the soil of
this little island and ever so many other things besides. He has
half a dozen houses to live in. He has a seat in Parliament as I
have one at my own dinner-table. He has elegant tastes- cares for
literature, for art, for science, for charming young ladies. The
most elegant is his taste for the new views. It affords him a great
deal of pleasure- more perhaps than anything else, except the young
ladies.
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