Perhaps the jauntiness of Sir Orlando, which implied that the Coalition was too strong to regard attack, somewhat irritated outsiders.

But there certainly grew up from that moment a feeling among such men as Erle and Rattler that care was necessary, that the House, taken as a whole, was not in a condition to be manipulated with easy freedom, and that Sir Orlando must be made to understand that he was not strong enough to depend upon jauntiness.

The jaunty statesman must be very sure of his personal following.

There was a general opinion that Sir Orlando had not brought the Coalition well out of the first real attack which had been made upon it.
"Well, Phineas; how do you like the Phoenix ?" Phineas Finn had flown back to London at the instigation probably of Mr.Rattler, and was now standing at the window of Brooks's club with Barrington Erle.
It was near nine one Thursday evening, and they were both about to return to the House.
"I don't like the Castle, if you mean that." "Tyrone isn't troublesome, surely ?" The Marquis of Tyrone was the Lord Lieutenant of the day, and had in his time been a very strong Conservative.
"He finds me troublesome, I fear." "I don't wonder at that, Phineas." "How should it be otherwise?
What can he and I have in sympathy with one another?
He has been brought up with all an Orangeman's hatred for a Papist.

Now that he is in high office, he can abandon the display of the feeling,--perhaps the feeling itself as regards the country at large.