But the ballot has never been seriously brought before any House in which I have sat.

I hate it with so keen a private hatred, that I doubt whether I could vote for it." "But the Radicals love it," said Alice.
"Palliser," said the Duke, speaking loudly from his end of the table, "I'm told you can never be entitled to call yourself a Radical till you've voted for the ballot." "I don't want to be called a Radical," said Mr Palliser,--"or to be called anything at all." "Except Chancellor of the Exchequer," said Lady Glencora in a low voice.
"And that's about the finest ambition by which a man can be moved," said the Duke.

"The man who can manage the purse-strings of this country can manage anything." Then that conversation dropped and the Duke ate his dinner.
"I was especially commissioned to amuse you," said Mr Jeffrey Palliser to Alice.

"But when I undertook the task I had no conception that you would be calling Cabinet Ministers over the coals about their politics." "I did nothing of the kind, surely, Mr Palliser.

I suppose all Radicals do vote for the ballot, and that's why I said it." "Your definition was perfectly just, I dare say, only--" "Only what ?" "Lady Glencora need not have been so anxious to provide specially for your amusement.