No doubt my ideas may be old-fashioned, and I'm told that Captain Aylmer is a fashionable young man." "Indeed he is not, papa.

He is a hard-working member of Parliament." "I don't know that he is any better for that.

People seem to think that if a man is a member of Parliament he may do what he pleases.
There is Thompson, the member for Minehead, who has bought some sort of place out by the moors.

I never saw so vulgar, pig-headed a fellow in my life.

Being in Parliament used to be something when I was young, but it won't make a man a gentleman now-a-days.