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Updated: June 2, 2025

I thought you country gentlemen never kept your pledges. 'Oh, yea, sometimes, said Mr Thorne, looking rather sheepish, and making salutations a little too much in the style of the last century. 'You deceive none but your consti-stit-stit; what do you call the people that carry you about in chairs and pelt you with eggs and apples when they make you a member of parliament?

Anthony Trollope - Barchester Towers