‘Where did it come from?’

’Where should it come from but the “Breakfast Table”?  Broune and I have been very good friends, but I do think that of all the men I know he is the most jealous.’

‘That is so little,’ said Lady Carbury.  She was really very fond of Mr Broune, but at the present moment she was obliged to humour Mr Alf.

’It seems to me that no man can be better qualified to sit in Parliament than an editor of a newspaper,—­that is if he is capable as an editor.’

‘No one, I think, has ever doubted that of you.’

’The only question is whether he be strong enough for the double work.  I have doubted about myself, and have therefore given up the paper...