It all came back upon him as though he had been born to the very manner.

And as it became known to the Ratlers that he meant to vote right on the great coming question,--to vote right and to speak right in spite of his doings at Tankerville,--everybody was civil to him.

Mr.Bonteen did express an opinion to Mr.Ratler that it was quite impossible that Phineas Finn should ever again accept office, as of course the Tankervillians would never replace him in his seat after manifest apostasy to his pledge; but Mr.Ratler seemed to think very little of that.

"They won't remember, Lord bless you;--and then he's one of those fellows that always get in somewhere.

He's not a man I particularly like; but you'll always see him in the House;--up and down, you know.