He never says a word about politics." "The little Bill hasn't a chance," cried Arnold.

"Your majority is melting away.

You, of course, will stand by the old man, but that is chivalry, not politics.

You don't know what a picturesque figure you make, sir; you help me to realise Horatius Codes, and that kind of thing." John Jacks laughed heartily at his own expense, but his wife seemed to think the jest unmannerly.

Home Rule did not in the least commend itself to her sedate, practical mind, but she would never have committed such an error in taste as to proclaim divergence from her husband's views.
"It is a most difficult and complicated question," she said, addressing herself to Otway.