There ain't no wages.

M.P.

and M.T.,"-- whereby Mr.Bunce, I fear, meant empty,--"are pretty much alike when a man hasn't a fortune at his back." "But he's going to stay with all the lords in the Cabinet," said Mrs.Bunce, to whom Phineas, in his pride, had confided perhaps more than was necessary.
"Cabinet, indeed," said Bunce; "if he'd stick to chambers, and let alone cabinets, he'd do a deal better.

Given up his rooms, has he,--till February?
He don't expect we're going to keep them empty for him!" Phineas found that the house was full at Saulsby, although the sojourn of the visitors would necessarily be so short.

There were three or four there on their way on to Loughlinter, like himself,--Mr.Bonteen and Mr.Ratler, with Mr.Palliser, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and his wife,--and there was Violet Effingham, who, however, was not going to Loughlinter.