"Surely Mr.
Mildmay is not the only man in the country.

There is the Duke, and there is Mr.Gresham,--and there is Mr.Monk." Phineas had at his tongue's end all the lesson that he had been able to learn at the Reform Club.
"I should hardly think the Duke would venture," said Mr.Kennedy.
"Nothing venture, nothing have," said Phineas.

"It is all very well to say that the Duke is incompetent, but I do not know that anything very wonderful is required in the way of genius.

The Duke has held his own in both Houses successfully, and he is both honest and popular.

I quite agree that a Prime Minister at the present day should be commonly honest, and more than commonly popular." "So you are all for the Duke, are you ?" said Lady Laura, again smiling as she spoke to him.
"Certainly;--if we are deserted by Mr.Mildmay.