His bards were awake to his anxiety, and celebrated John Mattock's doings with a trump and flourish somewhat displeasing to a quietly-disposed commoner.

John's entry into Parliament as a Liberal was taken for a sign of steersman who knew where the tide ran.

But your Liberals are sometimes Radicals in their youth, and his choice of parties might not be so much sagacity as an instance of unripe lightheadedness.

A young conservative millionaire is less disturbing.
The very wealthy young peer is never wanton in his politics, which seems to admonish us that the heir of vast wealth should have it imposed on him to accept a peerage, and be locked up as it were.

A coronet steadies the brain.