"Why not I, as well as another?"
"Oh, I don't know. Brighton, or some of those French places, or any where all about the world, would be more likely for you, I should think."
"Margate seems to be very jolly."
"Oh, I like it. But then we are not swells, you know. Have you heard the news? Ontario Moggs is going to stand to be 'member of Parliament' for Percycross."
"My rival!" That was the only word he uttered approaching to the subject of love.
"I don't know anything about that, Mr. Newton. But it's true."
"Why, Sir Thomas Underwood is going to stand."
"I don't know anything about anybody else, but Ontario Moggs is going to stand. I do so hope he'll get in. They say he speaks quite beautiful. Did you ever hear him?"
"I never heard him."
"Ah, you may laugh. But a bootmaker can make a speech sometimes as well as,—as well as a peer of Parliament. Father says that old Mr. Moggs has given him ever so much money to do it. When a man is in Parliament, Mr. Newton, doesn't that make him a gentleman?"