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"What's the story?" asked Brent, still quietly watching the subject of Peppermore's remarks. "Oh, the old one," said Peppermore. "Krevin Crood was once a solicitor, and Town Clerk, and, as I say, the biggest swell in the place. Making his couple of thousand a year, I should think. Come down in the usual fashion drink, gambling, extravagance and so on.
Saumarez, I says, as I dismissed the matter politely, of course 'has its Duties. It can make no exception, Mrs. Saumarez, to wealth, or rank, or beauty. I made her a nice bow, Mr. Brent, as I spoke the last word. But she wasn't impressed. As I say queer woman! What's publicity matter to her as long as she's no more than a witness?" Brent was not particularly impressed by Peppermore's story.
He saw little of the efforts of the other side; but Peppermore agreed with Tansley that the opposition would leave no stone unturned in the task of beating him. The Monitor was all for Brent Peppermore's proprietor was a Progressive; a tradesman who had bought up the Monitor for a mere song, and ran it as a business speculation which had so far turned out very satisfactorily.
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