Their next visit was to WRIGGLE, a member for a metropolitan
district, a disciple of Progress, who went with the times, but
who took particular good care to ascertain their complexion;
and whose movements if expedient could partake of a regressive
character. As the Charter might some day turn up trumps as
well as so many other unexpected cards and colours, Wriggle
gave his adhesion to it, but of course only provisionally;
provided that is to say, he might vote against it at present.
But he saw no harm in it--not he, and should be prepared to
support it when circumstances, that is to say the temper of
the times, would permit him. More could hardly be expected
from a gentleman in the delicate position in which Wriggle
found himself at this moment, for he had solicited a baronetcy
of the whigs, and had secretly pledged himself to Taper to
vote against them on the impending Jamaica division.
BOMBASTES RIP snubbed them, which was hard, for he had been
one of themselves, had written confidential letters in 1831 to
the secretary of the Treasury, and "provided his expenses were
paid," offered to come up from the manufacturing town he now
represented, at the head of a hundred thousand men, and burn
down Apsley House.
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