"The idea is perfectly scandalous.

You propose to sell your political birthright for a mess of pottage." "I am afraid I can't agree with you, sir," Tallente regretted.

"I am at least as much in sympathy with the programme of the Democratic Party as I am with yours." "In that case," was the somewhat stiff rejoinder, "there is, I fear, nothing more to be said." There was a brief silence.

Tallente would have been glad to make his escape, but found no excuse.
"When we beat Germany," Horlock ruminated, "the man in the street thought that we had ensured the peace of the world.

Who could have dreamed that a nation who had played such an heroic part, which had imperiled its very existence for the sake of a principle, was all the time rotten at the core!" "I will challenge you to repeat that statement in the House or on any public platform, sir," Tallente objected.