Your education has been too carefully attended to, for you to imagine that any step can be rough or unpleasant which raises you in the world.
"To come at once to the point.

One of the seats in your uncle's borough of Buyemall is every day expected to be vacated; the present member, Mr.
Toolington, cannot possibly live a week, and your uncle is very desirous that you should fill the vacancy which Mr.Toolington's death will create.

Though I called it Lord Glenmorris's borough, yet it is not entirely at his disposal, which I think very strange, since my father, who was not half so rich as your uncle, could send two members to Parliament without the least trouble in the world--but I don't understand these matters.

Possibly your uncle (poor man) does not manage them well.

However, he says no time is to be lost.