"
Kitty kept silence. The sarcastic violence of his tone fell on her like
a blow. She seemed to shrink together; while Ashe resumed his walk to
and fro.
Presently, however, she looked up, to ask, in a voice that tried for
steadiness:
"What do you mean to do--exactly--William?"
"I shall, of course, buy up all I can; I shall employ some lawyer
fellow, and appeal to the good feelings of the newspapers. There will be
no trouble with the respectable ones. But some copies will get out, and
some of the Opposition newspapers will make capital out of them.
Naturally!--they'd be precious fools if they didn't."
A momentary hope sprang up in Kitty.
"But if you buy it up--and stop all the papers that matter," she
faltered--"why should you resign, William? There won't be--such great
harm done."
For answer he opened the book, and without speaking pointed to two
passages--the first, an account full of point and malice of the
negotiations between himself and Lord Parham at the time when he entered
the cabinet, the conditions he himself had made, and the confidential
comments of the Premier on the men and affairs of the moment.
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