"Indeed, there's only one thing they care about at all now.

They've given up all the old things.

It's very likely that if Daubeny were to ask them to vote for pulling down the Throne and establishing a Republic they'd all follow him into the lobby like sheep.

They've been so knocked about by one treachery after another that they don't care now for anything beyond their places." "It's only a few of them get anything, after all." "Yes, they do.

It isn't just so much a year they want, though those who have that won't like to part with it.