That Phineas had lately triumphed over Browborough at Tankerville was known, the event having been so recent; and men congratulated him, talking of poor Browborough,--whose heavy figure had been familiar to them for many a year,--but by no means recognising that the event of which they spoke had been, as it were, life and death to their friend.

Roby was there, who was at this moment Mr.Daubeny's head whip and patronage secretary.

If any one should have felt acutely the exclusion of Mr.
Browborough from the House,--any one beyond the sufferer himself,--it should have been Mr.Roby; but he made himself quite pleasant, and even condescended to be jocose upon the occasion.

"So you've beat poor Browborough in his own borough," said Mr.Roby.
"I've beat him," said Phineas; "but not, I hope, in a borough of his own." "He's been there for the last fifteen years.

Poor old fellow! He's awfully cut up about this Church Question.