A gosling from such a flock does become something of a real swan by getting into Parliament.

The doctor had his misgivings,--had great misgivings, fearful forebodings; but there was the young man elected, and he could not help it.

He could not refuse his right hand to his son or withdraw his paternal assistance because that son had been specially honoured among the young men of his country.

So he pulled out of his hoard what sufficed to pay off outstanding debts,--they were not heavy,--and undertook to allow Phineas two hundred and fifty pounds a year as long as the session should last.
There was a widow lady living at Killaloe who was named Mrs.Flood Jones, and she had a daughter.

She had a son also, born to inherit the property of the late Floscabel Flood Jones of Floodborough, as soon as that property should have disembarrassed itself; but with him, now serving with his regiment in India, we shall have no concern.