[Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope]@TWC D-Link bookPhineas Finn CHAPTER VI 16/25
Look at Loughshane." "Yes; look at Loughshane," said Miss Fitzgibbon.
"The country at any rate has gained something there." "It's an ill wind that blows nobody any good, Mr.Finn," said the Earl. "What on earth is to become of poor George ?" said Mr.Fitzgibbon.
"I wonder whether any one knows where he is.
George wasn't a bad sort of fellow." "Roby used to think that he was a very bad fellow," said Mr.Bonteen. "Roby used to swear that it was hopeless trying to catch him." It may be as well to explain that Mr.Roby was a Conservative gentleman of great fame who had for years acted as Whip under Mr.Daubeny, and who now filled the high office of Patronage Secretary to the Treasury.
"I believe in my heart," continued Mr.Bonteen, "that Roby is rejoiced that poor George Morris should be out in the cold." "If seats were halveable, he should share mine, for the sake of auld lang syne," said Laurence Fitzgibbon. "But not to-morrow night," said Barrington Erle; "the division to-morrow will be a thing not to be joked with.
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