Who should lead the House?
That had been a great question, caused by the fact that the Prime Minister was in the House of Lords;--and what office should the Leader hold?
Mr.Monk had consented to take the Exchequer, but the right to sit opposite to the Treasury Box and to consider himself for the time the principal spirit in that chamber was at last assigned to Sir Orlando Drought.

"It will never do," said Mr.Rattler to Mr.Roby.

"I don't mean to say anything against Drought, who has always been a very useful man to your party;--but he lacks something of the position." "The fact is," said Roby, "that we've trusted to two men so long that we don't know how to suppose any one else big enough to fill their places.

Monk wouldn't have done.

The House doesn't care about Monk." "I always thought it should be Wilson, and so I told the Duke.