We have pensioned poor Mr. Fothergill, and he retires from the administration."
"And so the great Mr. Fothergill falls from power, and goes down into obscurity," said Madame Goesler.
And it was too much for him that such a one as Mr. Fothergill should be allowed to wire foxes in Trumpeton Wood!
The Duke was angry because Lord Chiltern had been violent;--and Lord Chiltern had been violent because Mr. Fothergill's conduct had been, to his thinking, not only sacrilegious, but one continued course of wilful sacrilege.