He almost thought that this was in truth the proudest and happiest moment of his life.

She would so thoroughly enjoy his triumph, would receive from it such great and unselfish joy, that he almost wished that he could have taken the message himself.

Surely had he done so there would have been fit occasion for another embrace.
He was again a member of the British House of Commons,--was again in possession of that privilege for which he had never ceased to sigh since the moment in which he lost it.

A drunkard or a gambler may be weaned from his ways, but not a politician.

To have been in the House and not to be there was, to such a one as Phineas Finn, necessarily, a state of discontent.