'
'Your father would be down on a man because he is a dissenter.'
'Of course my father is old-fashioned.'
'It does seem so hard to me,' said Silverbridge, 'to find any
difference between the two sets. You who are a true Conservative
are much more like to my father who is a Liberal than to your own
who is on the same side as yourself.'
'It may be so, and still I may be a good Conservative.'
'It seems to me in the house to mean nothing more than choosing
one set of companions or choosing another. There are some awful
cads who sit along with Mr Monk;--fellows that make you sick to
hear them, and whom I couldn't be civil to. But I don't think
there is anybody I hate so much as old Beeswax. He has a
contemptuous way with his nose which makes me long to pull it.'
'And you mean to go over in order that you may be justified in
doing so. I think I soar a little higher,' said Tregear.
'Oh, of course. You're a clever fellow,' said Silverbridge, not
without a touch of sarcasm.
'A man may soar higher than that without being very clever.
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