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"Not at all: Danvers throws cold water on the notion of Saxboro', and does not even hint that his party will help me to any other opening. Party has few openings at its disposal nowadays for any young man.
You may compute the cost of Saxboro' at L3000 to get in, and about L2000 more to defend your seat against a petition, the defeated candidate nearly always petitions. L5000 is a large sum; and the worst of it is, that the extreme opinions to which the member for Saxboro' must pledge himself are a drawback to an official career.
You may compute the cost of Saxboro' at L3000 to get in, and about L2000 more to defend your seat against a petition, the defeated candidate nearly always petitions. L5000 is a large sum; and the worst of it is, that the extreme opinions to which the member for Saxboro' must pledge himself are a drawback to an official career.
Kenelm was greatly struck with the vigour of this cold, clear mind, and owned to himself that the House of Commons was a fitting place for its development. "But," said Mivers, "would you not be obliged to defend these Bills if you were member for Saxboro'?" "Before I answer your question, answer me this: dangerous as the Bills are, is it not necessary that they shall pass?
"Judging by what your contemporaries at the University tell me of your speeches at the Debating Society, you were not then an ultra-Radical. But it is only an ultra-Radical who has a chance of success at Saxboro'." "I am no fanatic in politics. There is much to be said on all sides: /coeteris paribus/, I prefer the winning side to the losing; nothing succeeds like success."
Danvers, from an ottoman niched in another recess of the room, "I think there will be an opening at Saxboro' soon: Milroy wants a Colonial Government; and if we can reconstruct the Cabinet as I propose, he would get one. Saxboro' would thus be vacant. But, my dear fellow, Saxboro' is a place to be wooed through love, and only won through money.
"Not at all: Danvers throws cold water on the notion of Saxboro', and does not even hint that his party will help me to any other opening. Party has few openings at its disposal nowadays for any young man.
Have not the public so resolved?" "There can be no doubt of that." "Then the member for Saxboro' cannot be strong enough to go against the public." "Progress of the age!" said Kenelm, musingly. "Do you think the class of gentlemen will long last in England?" "What do you call gentlemen? The aristocracy by birth? the /gentilshommes/?"
Kenelm was greatly struck with the vigour of this cold, clear mind, and owned to himself that the House of Commons was a fitting place for its development. "But," said Mivers, "would you not be obliged to defend these Bills if you were member for Saxboro'?" "Before I answer your question, answer me this: dangerous as the Bills are, is it not necessary that they shall pass?
I asked you at half-past nine, because I wished to hear about Danvers and Saxboro', and also to prepare you somewhat for your introduction to your cousin. I must be brief as to the last, for it is only five minutes to the hour, and he is a man likely to be punctual. Kenelm is in all ways your opposite.
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