"But it'll be experience, and may open the way for me." "Parliament," mused the vicar, "Parliament! To be sure, we must have Members; it's our way of doing things, of governing the country.

And if you really feel apt for that--" He paused dreamily.

Dyce, still under the impulse of softened feelings, spoke as he seldom did, very simply, quietly, sincerely.
"I believe, father, that I am not _un_fit for it.

Politics, it's true, don't interest me very strongly, but I have brains enough to get the necessary knowledge, and I feel that I shall do better work in a prominent position of that kind than if I went on tutoring or took to journalism.

As you say, we must have representatives, and I should not be the least capable, or the least honest.