A very perfect recovery, most men will say.

Yes; a perfect recovery as regarded the temporary use of his faculties, both physical and mental; though it may be doubted whether there can be any permanent recovery from such disease as his.

What amount of brandy he consumed to enable him to perform this election work, and what lurking evil effect the excitement might have on him--of these matters no record was kept in the history of those proceedings.
Sir Roger's eloquence was of a rough kind; but not perhaps the less operative on those for whom it was intended.

The aristocracy of Barchester consisted chiefly of clerical dignitaries, bishops, deans, prebendaries, and such like: on them and theirs it was not probable that anything said by Sir Roger would have much effect.

Those men would either abstain from voting, or vote for the railway hero, with the view of keeping out the de Courcy candidate.