Well, why not complete the reproduction?
He was an M.P .-- why not a Baronet?
He knew how it was done.

There were a hundred ways.

Throw himself into the arbitration question between Canada and the United States: spend ten thousand pounds of--his grandfather's--money on the Party?
His reply to himself was cynical: the game was not worth the candle.

What had he got out of it all?
Money?
Yes: and he enjoyed that--the power that it gave--thoroughly.

The rest?
He knew that it did not strike as deep as it ought: the family tradition, the social scheme--the girl.
"What a brute I am!" he said.