Benjamin Disraeli

“ She rules that poor old goose, Lady Gramshawe, who feels that Lady Firebrace makes her life miserable, but is convinced that if she break with the torturer, she loses her only friend."
"There goes a man who is as much altered as any fellow of our time." ”

“ He does not like crotchetty men. Do you see that, Egerton?"
At this moment, Mr Egerton and his friend were about to step over from Trafalgar square to Charing Cross. They observed the carriages of Lady St Julians and the Marchioness of Deloraine drawn up side by side in the middle of the street, and those two eminent stateswomen in earnest conversation. Egerton and Berners bowed and smiled, but could not hear the brief but not uninteresting words that have nevertheless reached us. ”

“ Here they picked up Mr Jermyn, a young tory M.P., who perhaps the reader may remember at Mowbray Castle; and they walked on together, Egerton and Berners trying to pump him as to the expectations of his friends.
"How will Trodgits go?" said Egerton.
"I think Trodgits will stay away," said Jermyn.
"Who do you give that new man to—that north-country borough fellow;—what's his name?" said Berners.
"Blugsby! Oh, Blugsby dined with Peel," said Jermyn.
"Our fellows say dinners are no good," said Egerton; "and they certainly are a cursed bore: but you may depend upon it they do for the burgesses. ”