Mr.Mildmay leads our side; and if anybody leads me, he does.

But I have great faith in Mr.Monk." "There's one who would go for the ballot to-morrow, if it were brought forward stoutly," said Barrington Erle to Mr.Ratler a few minutes afterwards, pointing to Phineas as he spoke.
"I don't think much of that young man," said Ratler.
Mr.Bonteen and Mr.Ratler had put their heads together during that last evening at Loughlinter, and had agreed that they did not think much of Phineas Finn.

Why did Mr.Kennedy go down off the mountain to get him a pony?
And why did Mr.Gresham play chess with him?
Mr.
Ratler and Mr.Bonteen may have been right in making up their minds to think but little of Phineas Finn, but Barrington Erle had been quite wrong when he had said that Phineas would "go for the ballot" to-morrow.

Phineas had made up his mind very strongly that he would always oppose the ballot.

That he would hold the same opinion throughout his life, no one should pretend to say; but in his present mood, and under the tuition which he had received from Mr.Monk, he was prepared to demonstrate, out of the House and in it, that the ballot was, as a political measure, unmanly, ineffective, and enervating.