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I want, if I may say so, to keep your influence intact for the things that really matter. You and I, and all the other Brookshire landlords, may have, at some point, to act together. But we shall resist unreasonable demands much more easily if we accept the reasonable ones. The Squire shook his head. The suave tone of the speaker had clearly begun to rasp his nerves. 'No!
He could not bring himself to do it. It was as though Ferrier, lying still and cold at Lytchett, would know of it as though the act would do some roughness to the dead. He went into his sitting-room, found an empty drawer in his writing-table, thrust in the newspaper, and closed the drawer. "I regard this second appeal to West Brookshire as an insult!" said the Vicar of Beechcote, hotly. "If Mr.
She was a capital milker, and a good honest child. Her people lived in the village, and her forebears had always lived there. They were absolutely indigenous and autochthonous a far older Brookshire family than any of the dwellers in the big houses about.
"You charge all these things against Marsham?" "He or, rather, his mother has a large holding in collieries against which I charge them." "H'm. Lady Lucy isn't standing for West Brookshire." "No matter. The son's teeth are set on edge. Marsham has been appealed to, and has done nothing attempted nothing. He makes eloquent Liberal speeches, and himself spends money got by grinding the poor!"
"Why did you write, or allow that article on the West Brookshire landlords two days ago?" Wharton started. "Well! wasn't it true?" "No!" she said with a curling lip; "and I think you know it wasn't true." "What! as to the Raeburns? Upon my word, I should have imagined," he said slowly, "that it represented your views at one time with tolerable accuracy." Her nerve suddenly deserted her.
Alicia was well aware that Brookshire was looking on; that Brookshire was on the side of Diana Mallory, the forsaken, and was not at all inclined to forgive either the deserting lover or the supplanting damsel; so that while she was not loath to sting and mystify Brookshire by whatever small signs of her power over Oliver Marsham she could devise; though she queened it beside him on his coach, and took charge with Lady Lucy of his army of women canvassers; though she faced the mob with him at Hartingfield, on the occasion of the first disturbance there in June, and had stood beside him, vindictively triumphant on the day of his first hard-won victory, she would wear no ring, and she baffled all inquiries, whether of her relations or her girl friends.
Aldous Raeburn sat on Marcella's right hand; and during the day the attention of everybody in the dingy building had been largely divided between the scene below, and that strange group in the gallery where the man who had just been elected Conservative member for East Brookshire, who was Lord Maxwell's heir, and Westall's employer, sat beside his betrothed, in charge of a party which comprised not only Marcella Boyce, but the wife, sister, and little girl of Westall's murderer.
The paper contained an account of the stone-throwing at Hartingfield, and of the injury to himself; a full record of the last five or six days of the election, and of the proceedings at the declaration of the poll; a report, moreover, of the "chivalrous and sympathetic references" made by the newly elected Conservative member to the "dastardly attack" upon his rival, which the "whole of West Brookshire condemns and deplores."
During the last months of Parliament, Lankester had seen a good deal of Oliver. The story of Diana, and of Marsham's interrupted wooing was by that time public property, probably owing to the indignation of certain persons in Brookshire. As we have seen, it had injured the prestige of the man concerned in and out of Parliament.
Both of them could remember a wage of fifteen and sixteen shillings a week. Then just before the war, it had risen to eighteen shillings and a pound. And now why the Wages Board for Brookshire had fixed thirty-three shillings as a weekly minimum, and a nine-hours' day! Prices were high, but they would go down some day; and wages would not go down.
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