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Simon was rather embarrassed; but the genius of gossiping had luckily just supplied him with a hint, by which he could extricate himself from this difficulty. "The fault is all your own, if I may make so free as to tell you so. Sir Hyacinth O'Brien," said he, "as capital an electioneerer as you are, I'll engage I'll find one that shall outdo you here.
Upon the faith of this promise, Simon worked harder for his patron than he ever was known to do upon any previous occasion; and he was not deficient in that essential characteristic of an electioneerer, boasting.
Go to the devil and shake yourself."* Each who answers "A Talbotite," Rory shakes by the hand violently, singing, "Talbot, oh, Talbot's the dog for Rory." *This is the name of a country dance. When they have almost all passed, Lord John says, But where can Mr. Talbot be all this time? Burs. Who knows? Who cares? Wheel. A pretty electioneerer! Lord J. You don't wait for me, Mr. Finsbury.
Merton was upon very friendly terms with his brother, looked after the property in the absence of Sir John, kept up the family interest, was an excellent electioneerer, a good speaker at a pinch, an able magistrate, a man, in short, most useful in the county; on the whole, he was more popular than his brother, and almost as much looked up to perhaps, because he was much less ostentatious.
Merton was upon very friendly terms with his brother, looked after the property in the absence of Sir John, kept up the family interest, was an excellent electioneerer, a good speaker at a pinch, an able magistrate, a man, in short, most useful in the county; on the whole, he was more popular than his brother, and almost as much looked up to perhaps, because he was much less ostentatious.
He commenced with being a jockey; then he became an electioneerer; then a Methodist parson; then a builder of houses; and now he has dashed suddenly up to London, rushed into the clubs, mounted a wig, studied an ogle, and walks about the Opera House swinging a cane, and, at the age of fifty-six, punching young minors in the side, and saying tremulously, 'We young fellows!"
A very few hours sufficed to show the sea-captain to be a most capital electioneerer for a popular but not enlightened constituency.
I am not only the politest man, but the best electioneerer: you ought to see me shaking hands with the vibrations, the pump-handle and pendulum, the cross-cut and wiggle-waggle. I understand the science perfectly, and if any of the country candidates wish instructions, they must call upon me.
Keep out of my hearing, Wheeler, lest I should spoil sport. But never fear: you'll please Bursal sooner than I shall. I can't, for the soul of me, bring myself to say that Bursal's not purse-proud, and you can. Give you joy. Burs. A choice electioneerer! ha! ha! ha! Wheel. He! he! he! a choice electioneerer, as you say. Lord J. There was a time, Talbot Talb.
It is my brother. Mrs. T. Here he is! Hark! hark! Louisa. They are chairing him. Lord J. Yes, they are chairing him; and he has been chosen for his honourable conduct, not for his electioneering skill; for, to do him justice, Coriolanus himself was not a worse electioneerer. Enter RORY O'RYAN and another Eton lad, carrying TALBOT in a chair, followed by a crowd of Eton lads. Rory.
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