The affair which perhaps disgusted him more than anything else was the offer of an office,--not in the Cabinet, indeed, but one supposed to confer high dignity,--to Mr.Kennedy.

Mr.Kennedy refused the offer, and this somewhat lessened Finn's disgust, but the offer itself made him unhappy.
"I suppose it was made simply because of his money," he said to Fitzgibbon.
"I don't believe that," said Fitzgibbon.

"People seem to think that he has got a head on his shoulders, though he has got no tongue in it.

I wonder at his refusing it because of the Right Honourable." "I am so glad that Mr.Kennedy refused," said Lady Laura to him.
"And why?
He would have been the Right Hon.

Robert Kennedy for ever and ever." Phineas when he said this did not as yet know exactly how it would have come to pass that such honour,--the honour of the enduring prefix to his name,--would have come in the way of Mr.
Kennedy had Mr.Kennedy accepted the office in question; but he was very quick to learn all these things, and, in the meantime, he rarely made any mistake about them.
"What would that have been to him,--with his wealth ?" said Lady Laura.