I suppose you realize the kind of speechifying that would be expected of you?
Are you prepared to blaze away against Beaconsfield, and all that sort of thing ?" "I'm not afraid.

There are more sides to my character than you suppose." Eustace spoke excitedly, and tossed off a glass of liqueur.

His manner had become more youthful than of wont; his face showed more colour.
"The fact is," he went on, "if I talk politics at all, I can manage the Radical standpoint much more easily than the Tory.

I have precious little sympathy with anything popular, that's true; but it's easier for me to adopt the heroic strain of popular leaders than to put my own sentiments into the language of squires and parsons.

I should feel I was doing a baser thing if I talked vulgar Toryism than in roaring the democratic note.