Phineas Finn Returns to Killaloe Phineas Finn's first session of Parliament was over,--his first session with all its adventures.

When he got back to Mrs.Bunce's house,--for Mrs.Bunce received him for a night in spite of her husband's advice to the contrary,--I am afraid he almost felt that Mrs.Bunce and her rooms were beneath him.

Of course he was very unhappy,--as wretched as a man can be; there were moments in which he thought that it would hardly become him to live unless he could do something to prevent the marriage of Lady Laura and Mr.Kennedy.

But, nevertheless, he had his consolations.

These were reflections which had in them much of melancholy satisfaction.