A queer sort of man--great ability and high character.

But you can't imagine him getting on in politics, unless it's by sheer weight of wealth and family influence.

He'll find a scruple in every bush--never stand the rough work of the House, or get on with the _men_.

My goodness! you have to pull with some queer customers nowadays.
By the way, I hear he is making an unsatisfactory marriage--a girl very handsome, but with no manners, and like nobody else--the daughter, too, of an extremely shady father.

It's surprising; you'd have thought a man like Aldous Raeburn would have looked for the pick of things." "Perhaps it was she looked for the pick of things!" said the other, with a blunt laugh.