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Grote once quoted a phrase of Cicero's, applied to the voting-papers of his day, as a testimony in favour of this mode of secret suffrage grand words, and wholly untranslatable into anything like corresponding English "Tabella vindex tacitae libertatis" "the tablet which secures the liberty of silence". But knowing so well as Cicero did what was the ordinary character of Roman jurors and Roman voters, and how often this "liberty of silence" was a liberty to take a bribe and to vote the other way, one can almost fancy that we see upon his lips, as he utters the sounding phrase, that playful curve of irony which is said to have been their characteristic expression.
Elsie and I made fancy voting-papers, and I acted as returning officer, and showed the thing as clear as day; but though he drank a bottle and a half of sherry during the process, he was just as wise at the end as at the beginning.
We hold the suffrage in honor, and it is the suffrage that is to reform society. If once one begins to meddle with the voting-papers! "But that isn't necessary in the least! The people aren't really clear as to what they are doing you can't expect any quickness of perception from them! You could demand a fresh vote if I could first have a talk with them about the campaign!"
The smoke and the heat became intolerable, a smell like that of a cow-house rose from the muddy litter on the floor. One o'clock, two o'clock in the morning struck, and he was still unfolding voting-papers, the conscientiousness which he displayed delaying him to such a point that the other parties had long since finished their work, while his was still a maze of figures.
Claude had put on his hat again. Fagerolles was shuffling about impatiently, looking nervously at the house over the way. 'I don't send you off, but you see she's waiting for me, he said, 'Well, it's understood, your affair's settled that is, unless I'm not elected. Come to the Palais de l'Industrie on the evening the voting-papers are counted. Oh! there will be a regular crush, quite a rumpus!
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