She knew then that Frank Tregear was living with her brother.
"I am going up on purpose to see him.

He is causing me much annoyance." "Is he extravagant ?" "It is not that--at present." He winced even as he said this, for he had in truth suffered somewhat from demands made upon him for money, which had hurt him not so much by their amount as by their nature.
Lord Silverbridge had taken upon himself to "own a horse or two," very much to his father's chagrin, and was at this moment part proprietor of an animal supposed to stand well for the Derby.

The fact was not announced in the papers with his lordship's name, but his father was aware of it, and did not like it the better because his son held the horse in partnership with a certain Major Tifto, who was well known in the sporting world.
"What is it, papa ?" "Of course he ought to go into Parliament." "I think he wishes it himself." "Yes, but how?
By a piece of extreme good fortune, West Barsetshire is open to him.

The two seats are vacant together.

There is hardly another agricultural county in England that will return a Liberal, and I fear I am not asserting too much in saying that no other Liberal could carry the seat but one of our family." "You used to sit for Silverbridge, papa." "Yes, I did.