Ladies always like political jobs, and think that they,--and they only,--make politics bearable.

But this would not be a job at all.

Papa could do it better than anybody else.

Think how long he has been at it!" The matter in discussion was the chance of an order being sent out to Sir Marmaduke to come home from his islands at the public expense, to give evidence, respecting colonial government in general, to a committee of the House of Commons which was about to sit on the subject.

The committee had been voted, and two governors were to be brought home for the purpose of giving evidence.