'He'll make a Government hack of you,' a friend of mine said to me the other day.

'And I'll make a Manchester school Prime Minister of him,' I replied.

I rather think I know what I'm about, Miss Vavasor." "No doubt," said Alice.
"And so does he;--and so does he.

Mr Palliser is not the man to be led by the nose by any one.

But it's a fair system of give and take.
You can't get on in politics without it.