fellow bowled over in punishment for some contradiction, and that man snuffed out for daring to be an enemy.  And he expatiated on his own virtues, his justice and clemency.  Ah,—­if men and women only knew his good nature and his patriotism;—­how he had spared the rod here, how he had made the fortune of a man there, how he had saved the country millions by the steadiness of his adherence to some grand truth!  Lady Carbury delighted in all this and repaid him by flattery, and little confidences of her own.  Under his teaching she had almost made up her mind to give up Mr Alf.  Of nothing was Mr Broune more certain than that Mr Alf was making a fool of himself in regard to the Westminster election and those attacks on Melmotte.  &rsquo...