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"Glazzard, what should you say if I came forward as Radical candidate for Polterham?" There was silence. Glazzard fixed his eyes on the opposite wall; his smile was unchanged. "I see no objection," he at length replied. The tones were rather thick, and ended in a slight cough. Feeling that all eyes were fixed upon him, Glazzard made an uneasy movement, and rose from his chair.
A great fire had been blazing for an hour or two; and the table, not too large, was laid with the best service the house could afford nothing very grand, to be sure, in these days of its decline, but the general effect was inviting to men with a good appetite and some historical imagination. "A happy idea of yours!" said Glazzard, as he rubbed his hands before the great hearth.
Mumbray, at length, "that my wife and daughter will be very sorry to have missed your call. Undoubtedly you can count on their being at home to-morrow." The prediction was fulfilled, and before leaving the house Glazzard made Serena a proposal of marriage. That morning there had occurred a quarrel of more than usual bitterness between mother and daughter.
"It is settled!" cried Denzil, jumping up, with a return of his extravagant spirits. "You, Glazzard, will stand by and watch our truest friend. You on the hustings! Ha, ha, ha! Come, one more glass of whisky, and I will tell them to get our cab ready. I say, Glazzard, from this evening forth never a word between us about the secret. That is understood, of course.
"Well," he exclaimed, when greetings were over, "I don't think you will want for an audience to-morrow, Denzil. We are summoning Polterham indiscriminately." Glazzard had of course heard of the coming lecture. He wore a smile, but was taciturn. "Pray heaven I don't make an exhibition of myself!" cried Denzil, with an air of sufficient confidence.
In a few years' time, he and his wife agreed to differ on a great many topics of moment, and consequently to live apart. Mrs. Glazzard died abroad. William, when the desire for retirement came upon him, was glad of the society of a son and a daughter in their early teens.
You will see that I have no kind of selfish object in view in fact, that I am quite justified in what looks like vulgar plotting." Glazzard threw out the words with a careless condescension, keeping his eyes on the landscape. "I'll take back the portrait, if you please." He restored it to his pocket, and watched Northway's features, which were expressive of mental debate.
At the Academy, accordingly, the test should be applied. It was all a fabrication; Northway, laying some new plot, might already know Glazzard by sight. But the latter should be put on his guard, and Mrs. Wade should then be taught that henceforth she was forbidden to concern herself with his Quarrier's affairs. He went home and passed a cheerless time until the next morning.
The fact of your borrowing was utterly disgraceful; it shows me that the poor boy had fallen in a trap, instead of meeting with a friend who was likely to guide and improve him. You confess yourself a gambler, and I go away with the conviction that you are something yet worse." Glazzard set his lips hard, but fell back into the lounging attitude.
"He has hardly progressed with the times," assented Glazzard. Lilian was listening so attentively that she forgot her dinner. "I didn't think you cared so much about politics," she remarked, gravely. "Oh, it comes out now and then. I suppose Glazzard's aesthetic neutrality stirs me up." "I am neither aesthetic nor neutral," remarked the guest, as if casually. Denzil laughed.
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