But many men were in want of many things, and contrived by many means to make their wants known to the Prime Minister.

A dean would fain be a bishop, or a judge a chief justice, or a commissioner a chairman, or a secretary a commissioner.
Knights would fain be baronets, baronets barons, and barons earls.
In one guise or another the wants of gentlemen were made known, and there was work to be done.

A ribbon cannot be given away without breaking the hearts of, perhaps, three gentlemen and of their wives and daughters.

And then he went down to the House of Lords,--for the last time this Session as far as work was concerned.

On the morrow legislative work would be over, and the gentlemen of Parliament would be sent to their country houses, and to their pleasant country joys.
It had been arranged that on the day after the prorogation of Parliament the Duchess of Omnium should go down to Gatherum to prepare for the coming of the people, which was to commence about three days later, taking her ministers, Mrs.Finn and Locock, with her; and that her husband with his private secretaries and dispatch boxes was to go for those three days to Matching, a smaller place than Gatherum, but one to which they were much better accustomed.