If you can bring them to do so, you make them more capable citizens, abler to form a judgment on the questions of the day.' Egremont smiled.
'My one aim,' he remarked, 'is to persuade them to forget that there are such things as questions of the day.' Dalmaine also smiled, and with a slight involuntary curling of the lip.
'Ah, I remember our discussions on the Atlantic.

I scarcely thought you would apply those ideas in their--their fulness, when you began practical work.

You surely will admit that, in a time when their interests are engaging so much attention, working men should--for instance--go to the polls with intelligent preparation.' 'I'd rather they didn't go to the polls at all,' Walter replied.

He knew that this was exaggeration, but it pleased him to exaggerate.

He enjoyed the effect on the honourable member's broad countenance.
'Come, come!' said Dalmaine, laughing with appearance of entering into the joke.