Government! Why, sir, the government is undher more obligations to me than I am to them.

It was my activity and loyalty that was the manes, principally, of returnin' the son of the gustus ratalorum of the county for the borough of Addleborough.

He was their own candidate; and if that wasn't layin' them undher an obligation to me, I don't know what was.

You may say what you like, but I repate, it's a right good, thing to have the force of public opinion in your favor." "Yes, of public opinion, I grant you; but surely you cannot pretend, father, that such gross and barefaced flattery as that can be termed public opinion ?" "And why not, sir?
Upon my honor and conscience, things is come to a pretty pass when a man--a magistrate--like me, must be lectured by his own son! Isn't it too bad, Catherine ?" "I am no politician, you know, but I think he doesn't mean to lecture you, papa; perhaps you ought to say to reason or remonstrate with--" "Raison! remonstrate! And what right has he aither to raison or remonstrate with a man--or rather a magistrate--such as I am known by the government to be.

He calls that paragraph gross and barefaced flattery, and myself a staryrayotype! but I tell him now that it is no flattery, nor anything at all but the downright naked thruth, and no man ought to know that better than I do, for this good raison, that it was myself wrote every line of it, and got Swiggerly only to correct it." A deep and crimson blush overspread his daughter's face on hearing this mean and degrading admission; and Fergus, who was in the act of bringing a bit of ham to his mouth, suddenly laid it down again, then looked first at Catherine, then at his father, several times in succession.