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THE PRIME MINISTER
Hallam.
How little indeed!
Carfax.
A hard, austere, unyielding nature, without a
touch of sentiment, and yet . . .
Hallam.
A person of such underlying tenderness that his
highest, gravest, sternest moment may be broken in
upon by the cry of a little child!
Dundas.
Strange contradiction!
Hallam.
Extraordinary combination of conflicting characteristics!
Carfax.
What a victim for the designing man!
Hallam.
Or the scheming woman!
Lord Burnley.
No!
Hallam.
No?
Lord Burnley.
The scheming woman—no! Robert Temple carries
one talisman against that kind of peril [Pointing to portrait over fireplace], the memory of his dead
wife.
