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Du Boung was prepared to give no more than a very cautious support to the Duke's Government. Arthur Fletcher read Mr. Du Boung's address immediately after the Duke's letter. "The more the merrier," said Arthur. "Just so. Du Boung will not rob you of a vote, but he will cut the ground altogether from under the other man's feet.
With such a hope still existing he had not scrupled to affirm in his speeches that the success of his canvass had been complete. But, on the morning of the day on which he met Fletcher in the street, Mr. Du Boung had called upon him accompanied by two of the Du Boung agents and by Mr.
Only I hope you'll excuse me if I say that a man ought to get up very early in the morning if he means to see further into politics than your father." "Very early indeed," said Mr. Du Boung, shaking his head. "That's all right," said Lord Silverbridge. "I'll propose you, my Lord. I need not wish you success, because there is no one to stand against you." Then they went to Dr.
Lopez does come of foreign extraction." "I don't know what he comes from," said Arthur moodily. "They tell me he's a gentleman. However, as we are to have a contest, I hope he mayn't win." "Of course you do. And he shan't win. Nor shall the great Du Boung. You shall win, and become Prime Minister, and make me a peer.
Du Boung should be entitled to a certain amount of glorification in the presence of Lord Silverbridge. "And it was in compliance with that wish on the part of the borough, my Lord," said Mr. Du Boung, "as to which my own feelings were quite as strong as that of any other gentleman in the borough, that I conceived it to be my duty to give way." "His Lordship is quite aware how much he owes to Mr.
"Though there are some in the borough who could have wished, my Lord, that you had stuck to the old Palliser politics," said Mr. Du Boung. "But I haven't stuck to the Palliser politics. Just at present I think that order and all that sort of thing should be maintained." "Hear, hear!" said the landlord. "And now, as I have expressed my views generally, I am willing to go anywhere."
Sprugeon added a very "short and easy letter" to the electors of the borough of Silverbridge, in which Mr. Lopez was supposed to tell them that although his canvass promised to him every success, he felt that he owed it to the borough to retire, lest he should injure the borough by splitting the Liberal interest with their much respected fellow-townsman, Mr. Du Boung.
"In doing which I considered that I studied the interest of the borough," said Mr. Du Boung. "I thought you gave it up because there was hardly a footing for a Liberal," said his Lordship, very imprudently. "The borough was always Liberal till the last election," said Mr. Du Boung, drawing himself up. "The borough wishes on this occasion to be magnanimous," said Mr.
Sprugeon himself, and had suggested that he, Lopez, should withdraw from the contest, so that Du Boung might be returned, and that the "Liberal interests" of the borough might not be sacrificed. This was a heavy blow, and one which Ferdinand Lopez was not the man to bear with equanimity. From the moment in which the Duchess had mentioned the borough to him, he had regarded the thing as certain.
But the candidates and their agents were stern in their replies to such temptations. "That's a dodge of that rascal Sprout," said Sprugeon to Mr. Lopez. "That's one of Sprout's men. If he could get half-a-crown from you it would be all up with us." But though Sprugeon called Sprout a rascal, he laid the same bait both for Du Boung and for Fletcher; but laid it in vain.
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