Doesn't every Radical candidate get up and talk in the same maudlin way--hasn't he done so for the last fifty years?
And when he gets into Parliament is there a more Conservative person on the face of the earth than the Radical member pledged to social reform?
It's the same with your man Henslow.
He'll do nothing! He'll attempt nothing! Silly farce, politics, I think." Lady Caroom laughed softly.
"I have never heard you so eloquent in my life, Sydney," she exclaimed.
"Do go on.

It is most entertaining.

When you have quite finished I can see that Mr.Brooks is getting ready to pulverize you." Brooks shook his head.
"Lady Sybil tells me that Mr.Molyneux is not to be taken seriously," he answered.
Molyneux brought up his cup for some more tea.
"Don't you listen to Lady Sybil, Brooks," he retorted.

"She is annoyed with me because I have been spoken of as a future Prime Minister, and she rather fancies her cousin for the post.

Two knobs, please, and plenty of cream.