What need had he to take up the Church question at Tankerville?
The truth is, Duke, the thing is going to pieces.
We get men into the House now who are clever, and all that sort of thing, and who force their way up, but who can't be made to understand that everybody should not want to be Prime Minister." The Duke, who was now a Nestor among politicians, though very green in his age, smiled as he heard remarks which had been familiar to him for the last forty years.

He, too, liked his party, and was fond of loyal men; but he had learned at last that all loyalty must be built on a basis of self-advantage.

Patriotism may exist without it, but that which Erle called loyalty in politics was simply devotion to the side which a man conceives to be his side, and which he cannot leave without danger to himself.
But if discontent was felt at the eagerness with which this subject was taken up at certain boroughs, and was adopted by men whose votes and general support would be essentially necessary to the would-be coming Liberal Government, absolute dismay was occasioned by a speech that was made at a certain county election.

Mr.Daubeny had for many years been member for East Barsetshire, and was as sure of his seat as the Queen of her throne.

No one would think of contesting Mr.
Daubeny's right to sit for East Barsetshire, and no doubt he might have been returned without showing himself to the electors.