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Accordingly it had been hoped that Egerton would come in without opposition, when, the very day on which he had abruptly left the place, a handbill, signed "Haverill Dashmore, Captain R. N., Baker Street, Portman Square," announced, in very spirited language, the intention of that gentleman "to emancipate the borough from the unconstitutional domination of an oligarchical faction, not with a view to his own political aggrandizement, indeed at great personal inconvenience, but actuated solely by abhorrence to tyranny, and patriotic passion for the purity of election."
I shan't make any stir about the child just yet, my lady: but before forty-eight hours are over our heads, I'll have a handbill posted in every town in England, and an advertisement in every newspaper, offering five pounds reward for that dark blue silk coverlet you talk of, lined with crimson." "There seems considerable wisdom in the idea," said the captain, thoughtfully.
"Suppose you look at it?" he said. "Whether I am interested in it or not?" Miss Jethro asked. "You may be interested in what Miss Emily says about it in her letter." "Do you propose to show me her letter?" "I propose to read it to you." Miss Jethro took the Handbill without further objection.
Have you found anything else among your aunt's papers?" "I have met with a great disappointment," Emily replied. "Did I tell you how I discovered the Handbill?" "No." "I found it, with the scrap-book and the newspaper cuttings, under a collection of empty boxes and bottles, in a drawer of the washhand-stand. And I naturally expected to make far more interesting discoveries in this room.
There is more than political rancor in this handbill. There is more than a well defined, easily perceived personal malice in this argument. There is the poisoning sting of the truth the truth said in a general way, but striking in a special and a tender place. The house is reached. Lockwin has not enlarged his establishment.
During the election for Quebec, a handbill had appeared, calling the government feeble. Those who issued that handbill, the Mercury exultingly remarked, would have felt that they were not quite under the government of King Log. The Canadien was, in abuse, the freest of any paper in the province. It was licentious.
Meanwhile the entertainment was going on. Gudel gave more than he promised in his handbill. Before the curtain went up, he called together the members of his troupe, and encouraged them to do their best. La Roulante went up to him, and to his great amazement said a few conciliatory words. As Gudel was by no means ill-natured, he shook hands with her.
It meant that he was playing against time, with the chances of the game all against him. He had forty-eight hours in which to escape and he was handcuffed, chained, locked up, and guarded. Truly, the outlook was not radiant. On the third morning Beauchamp Lee returned to Mesa unshaven, dusty, and fagged with hard riding. He brought with him a handbill which he had picked up in the street.
You will have seen on the handbill announcing the lecture, that we are holding this meeting in connection with my taking office as President of the Theosophical Society, and it is my purpose, in addressing you to-night, to try to show you, at least to some small extent, what is the value which the Society represents, as regarded from the standpoint of human activities, manifested in the world of thought.
When Jude learnt that there was to be an auction at the house of the Donns he packed his own household goods into a waggon, and sent them to her at the aforesaid homestead, that she might sell them with the rest, or as many of them as she should choose. He then went into lodgings at Alfredston, and saw in a shopwindow the little handbill announcing the sale of his father-in-law's furniture.
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