"Trust him!"

"He has had enough of dissolutions they say."

"Why, after all they have not done him much harm. Even --34
was a hit."

"Whoever dissolves," said Mr Egerton, "I don't think there
will be much of a majority either way in our time."

"We have seen strange things," said Mr Berners.

"They never would think of breaking up the government without
making their peers," said Mr Egerton.

"The Queen is not over partial to making more peers; and when
parties are in the present state of equality, the Sovereign is
no longer a mere pageant."

"They say her Majesty is more touched about these affairs of
the Chartists than anything else," said Mr Egerton.

"They are rather queer; but for my part I have no serious
fears of a Jacquerie."

"Not if it comes to an outbreak; but a passive resistance
Jacquerie is altogether a different thing. When we see a
regular Convention assembled in London and holding its daily
meetings in Palace Yard; and a general inclination evinced
throughout the country to refrain from the consumption of