"Planty is no fool, I can tell you," said Sir Cosmo, coming to the table with his plate full of pie. "We think he's about the most rising man we have." Sir Cosmo was the member for his county, and was a Liberal. He had once, when a much younger man, been at the Treasury, and had since always spoken of the Whig Government as though he himself were in some sort a part of it.

"Planty is no fool, I can tell you," said Sir Cosmo, coming to the table with his plate full of pie. "He's about the most rising man we have." Sir Cosmo was the member of parliament for his county, and was a Liberal.
