I am quite prepared to admit, as a friend, that he would go back without some such help." "Oh;--I understand." "I do not believe that you do understand at all, but I must endeavour to make you do so by degrees.

If you are to be my political pupil, you must at any rate be obedient.

The next time you meet Mr.Kennedy, ask him his opinion instead of telling him your own.

He has been in Parliament twelve years, and he was a good deal older than you when he began." At this moment a side door was opened, and the red-haired, red-bearded man whom Phineas had seen before entered the room.

He hesitated a moment, as though he were going to retreat again, and then began to pull about the books and toys which lay on one of the distant tables, as though he were in quest of some article.