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Sir Charles Repton strode up Whitehall. His day's work had been heavy, / in the hours since that morning conversation, and he was suffering.
It was no spiritual suffering which affected that strong character: / his life was fixed; the decision he had taken was final. Nay, every / circumstance surrounding that decision delighted him. The peerage had / been offered at precisely the right moment; he himself could have / chosen no better. It was the moment when he particularly desired to / be at once more powerful, if that could be, and yet free; more fixed / in his political tenure, yet more at large to catch the hand of / opportunity. For all his strategy was centred upon the Company which he / was determined to save.