He had now and again attacked his father's ultra-Toryism, and rebuked his mother and sisters when they spoke of Gladstone as Apollyon, and called John Bright the Abomination of Desolation.

But it was easy to him to fancy himself a Conservative, and as such he took his seat in the House without any feeling of discomfort.
During the first four months of his first session he had not spoken,--but he had made himself useful.

He had sat on one or two Committees, though as a barrister he might have excused himself, and had done his best to learn the forms of the House.

But he had already begun to find that the time which he devoted to Parliament was much wanted for his profession.

Money was very necessary to him.