RANDAL.—“To be sure I do.”
DICK.—“When Emanuel Trout comes into the booth, you will know how the election turns. As he votes, all the Hundred and Fifty will vote. Now I must go back. Good-night.
“You’ll not forget that my expenses are to be paid. Point of honour. Still, if they are not paid, the election can be upset,—petition for bribery and corruption; and if they are paid, why, Lansmere may be your seat for life.”
RANDAL.—“Your expenses shall be paid the moment my marriage gives me the means to pay them,—and that must be very soon.”
DICK.—“So Levy says. And my little jobs—the private bills?”
RANDAL.—“Consider the bills passed and the jobs done.”
DICK.—“And one must not forget one’s country. One must do the best one can for one’s principles. Egerton is infernally Blue. You allow Public Opinion—is—”
RANDAL.—“Yellow. Not a doubt of it.”
DICK.—“Good-night. Ha, ha! humbug, eh?”
RANDAL.—“Humbug! Between men like us,—oh, no. Good-night, my dear friend, I rely on you.”