Of course there are some among them as hungry as we are; and Dubby would give his toes and fingers to remain in." Dubby was the ordinary name by which, among friends and foes, Mr.
Daubeny was known: Mr.Daubeny, who at that time was the leader of the Conservative party in the House of Commons.

"But most of them," continued Mr.Fitzgibbon, "prefer the other game, and if you don't care about money, upon my word it's the pleasanter game of the two." "But the country gets nothing done by a Tory Government." "As to that, it's six of one and half a dozen of the other.

I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.

Give a government a real strong majority, as the Tories used to have half a century since, and as a matter of course it will do nothing.

Why should it?
Doing things, as you call it, is only bidding for power,--for patronage and pay." "And is the country to have no service done ?" "The country gets quite as much service as it pays for,--and perhaps a little more.