For there never really is anything special to be done;--is there, Mr.Erle ?" "I think there is always a little too much zeal about Finn." "Of course there is.

And then with zeal there always goes a thin skin,--and unjustifiable expectations, and biting despair, and contempt of others, and all the elements of unhappiness." "That is a sad programme for your husband." "He has recuperative faculties which bring him round at last:--but I really doubt whether he was made for a politician in this country.
You remember Lord Brock ?" "Dear old Brock;--of course I do.

How should I not, if you remember him ?" "Young men are boys at college, rowing in boats, when women have been ever so long out in the world.

He was the very model of an English statesman.

He loved his country dearly, and wished her to be, as he believed her to be, first among nations.