Has any other borough such a contemptible representative?
I perspire with shame and anger when I think of him!" Dyce asked himself how much of this vehemence was genuine, how much assumed to gratify their hostess.

Was Mr.Breakspeare inwardly laughing at himself and the company?
But he seemed to be an excitable little man, and possibly believed what he said.
"That's very interesting," Dyce remarked.

"And how much longer will Hollingford be content with such representation ?" "I think," replied Breakspeare, gravely, "I really think, that at the next election we shall floor him.

It is the hope of my life.

For that I toil; for that I sacrifice leisure and tranquillity and most of the things dear to a man philosophically inclined.