But when a man goes in for it himself, as you have done, he should make up his mind to be useful." "I shall vote with my party of course." "More than that; much more than that.

If you didn't care for politics you couldn't have taken a line of your own." When she said this she knew that he had been talked into what he had done by Tregear,--by Tregear, who had ambition, and intelligence, and capacity for forming an opinion of his own.

"If you do not do it for your own sake, you will for the sake of those who,--who,--who are your friends," she said at last, not feeling quite able to tell him that he must do it for the sake of those who loved him.
"There are not very many I suppose who care about it." "Your father." "Oh yes,--my father." "And Tregear." "Tregear has got his own fish to fry." "Are there none others?
Do you think we care nothing about it here ?" "Miss Cassewary ?" "Well;--Miss Cassewary! A man might have a worse friend than Miss Cassewary;--and my father." "I don't suppose Lord Grex cares a straw about me." "Indeed he does,--a great many straws.

And so do I.Do you think I don't care a straw about it ?" "I don't know why you should." "Because it is my nature to be earnest.

A girl comes out into the world so young that she becomes serious, and steady as it were, so much sooner than a man does." "I always think that nobody is so full of chaff as you are, Lady Mab." "I am not chaffing now in recommending you to go to work in the world like a man." As she said this they were sitting on the same sofa, but with some space between them.