A review by shoba
Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope

3.0

"But the country gets nothing done by a Tory Government."

"As to that, it's six of one and half a dozen of the other. I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.”

"And is the country to have no service done?"

"The country gets quite as much service as it pays for, and perhaps a little more. The clerks in the offices work for the country. And the Ministers work too, if they've got anything to manage. There is plenty of work done; but of work in Parliament, the less the better, according to my ideas. It's very little that ever is done, and that little is generally too much."




Came across this sentence.
"She is a jilt then?"
Jilt meaning a woman who unexpectedly rejects a lover.