But as to M'Buffer, his going will be a great thing for us, if, as I don't doubt, I can get his seat.' 'It will be a great thing for you,' said Alaric, who, as well as Undy, had his Parliamentary ambition.
'And for you too, my boy.

We should carry the Ballydehob branch to a dead certainty; and even if we did not do that, we'd bring it so near it that the expectation of it would send the shares up like mercury in fine weather.

They are at L2 12s.6d.now, and, if I am in the House next Session, they'll be up to L7 10s.
before Easter; and what's more, my dear fellow, if we can't help ourselves in that way, they'll be worth nothing in a very few months.' Alaric looked rather blank; for he had invested deeply in this line, of which he was now a director, of a week's standing, or perhaps we should say sitting.

He had sold out all his golden hopes in the Wheal Mary Jane for the sake of embarking his money and becoming a director in this Irish Railway, and in one other speculation nearer home, of which Undy had a great opinion, viz.: the Limehouse Thames Bridge Company.

Such being the case, he did not like to hear the West Cork with the Ballydehob branch spoken of so slightingly.
'The fact is, a man can do anything if he is in the House, and he can do nothing if he is not,' said Undy.