QUID PRO QUO.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XII, Issue VI, 10 February 1894, Page 144

QUID PRO QUO.

It is reported that one day when Lord Brougham had driven to the House in the vehicle of his own invention, which Robinson, the coachmaker, bad christened after him, he was met in the robing-room by the Duke of Wellington, who, after a low bow, accosted him thus : * I have always hitherto lived under the impression that your lordship would go down to posterity as the great apostle of education, the emancipator of the negro, the restorer of abused charities, the reformer of the law. But no —hereafter you will be known only as the inventor of a carriage !’ * And I, my lord duke, have always been under the delusion that your grace would be remembered as the hero of a hundred battles, the liberator of Europe, the conqueror of Napoleon. But no—yonr grace will be known as the inventor of a pair of boots.’ * Confound the boots !’ said the Iron Duke. * I had quite forgotten them. You have the best of it.’