"Suppose we go to Mr.Walker first ?" "I'm up to anything," said Lord Silverbridge; "but of course everybody understands that I am a Conservative." "Oh dear, yes," said Sprugeon.
"We are all aware of that," said Sprout.
"And very glad we've all of us been to hear it," said the landlord.
"Though there are some in the borough who could have wished, my Lord, that you had stuck to the old Palliser politics," said Mr.Du Boung.
"But I haven't stuck to the Palliser politics.

Just at present I think that order and all that sort of thing should be maintained." "Hear, hear!" said the landlord.
"And now, as I have expressed my views generally, I am willing to go anywhere." "Then we'll go to Mr.Walker first," said Sprugeon.

Now it was understood that in the borough, among those who really had opinions of their own, Mr.Walker the old attorney stood first as a Liberal, and Dr.Tempest the old rector first as a Conservative.
"I am glad to see your Lordship in the town which gives you its name," said Mr.Walker, who was a hale old gentleman with silvery-white hair, over seventy years of age.

"I proposed your father for this borough on, I think, six or seven different occasions.

They used to go in and out then whenever they changed their offices." "We hope you'll propose Lord Silverbridge now," said Mr.Sprugeon.
"Oh; well;--yes.