"Ay!" he said, "one of themselves!"
"A man not to be led out of his way by flatterers."
"No," he said with a superior smile, "no one, man or woman, can flatter me."
"A man who knows the restless unsatisfied yearnings of the people, and what they mean, and has found out how they may be satisfied."
"Ye—yes!" he replied, doubtfully, "certainly."
"A man who will lead the people to get what is good for themselves and by themselves, without the help of Government."
And no thunders in the Commons? No ringing denunciation of the Hereditary House? Nothing at all that he had looked to do and to say? Call this a leadership? But he thought of the Chartist and his new methods. By different roads, said Montaigne, we arrive at the same end.