Now let us get to work.

I suppose you would wish that I should take the chair at the Council." "Certainly;--of course," said the Duke of Omnium, turning to the table.

The one practical suggestion had fixed him, and from that moment he gave himself to the work in hand with all his energies.

It was not very difficult, nor did it take them a very long time.

If the future Prime Minister had not his names at his fingers' ends, the future President of the Council had them.