As you weren't born,
you must be made. Baron BOUVERIE-STREET would look very well in the
Peerage. You've only to ask (BRABOURNE knows); keep on asking, and in
meantime make yourself disagreeable in the Commons, and the thing is
done."
Very much obliged to DENMAN; quite kind of him to take this interest
in me; but why so anxious on the point?
"I'll tell you frankly, TOBY. I want to create a Party here, and
you'd do admirably to begin with. A Statesman, however capable, no
use without a Party. You know that very well in the Commons. Everybody
there has a Party. I am all by myself here, and the MARKISS and the
rest put upon me. Now if I had a Party--"
"HANS BREITMANN had one, you know," I say, liking to humour DENMAN,
who is evidently in low spirits.
[Illustration: A Hot 'Un for the City.]
"Had he? Where did he sit for? Never heard of him; however, as I was
saying, if I had a Party I should make the MARKISS sit up."
In the meantime, I gather they have been making DENMAN sit down.
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