"Talking bad about the Prime Minister? How dare I? I'm just a poor lad from York countryside, a stinking blue lobster, an executioner under the Tower of London, a black sheep at the Foreign Office and White Hall... "
"You still say you haven't gone to speak ill, look at the tone of your words, the sarcasm is almost overflowing."
"Benjamin, you accuse me of having stereotypes about you, but your prejudice against me is not less." Arthur put down the pipe and said, "I went to Buckingham Palace not to speak ill of anyone, on the contrary, I went to clean up the Prime Minister's mess."
Disraeli, being a smart man, said, "You mean those suggestive articles in the newspapers recently?"
"Yes." Arthur said blandly, "Those reports that write the Queen like a young girl in love and Melbourne like a soon-to-retire Casanova."
