Do you wish to talk privately, or will you come into the study?
We were sitting there." "It's only politics." "Oh, then come." Quarrier would rather have been left in quiet over the proof-sheets of his book--it was already going through the press--but he welcomed the visitor with customary friendliness.
"Capital speech of Hartington's yesterday." "Very good answer to Cross.

What do you think of John Bright and the licensed victuallers ?" "Oh," laughed Denzil, "he'll have to talk a good deal before he persuades them that temperance is money in their pockets! I don't see the good of that well-intentioned sophistry.

But then, you know, I belong to the habitual drunkards! You have heard that Scatchard Vialls so represents me to all and sundry ?" "I should proceed against him for slander." "On the contrary, I think it does me good.

All the honest topers will rally to me, and the sober Liberals will smile indulgently.

Sir Wilfred Lawson would long ago have been stamped out as a bore of the first magnitude but for his saving humour." Mrs.Wade presently made known her business; but with a preface which disturbed the nerves of both her listeners.
"The enemy have a graver charge against you.