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Updated: June 9, 2025
Very often, in the winter nights here, I waste my time trying to think out your greater problems." "Problems," he observed, "which the good people of Hellesfield have just decided that I am not the man to solve." "An election counts for nothing," she declared. "The merest whim will lead thousands of voters into the wrong polling booth.
Gradually, however, my position became more and more difficult. In the end he offered me a post in the Cabinet, induced me to resign my own seat, which I admit was a doubtful one, and sent me to fight Hellesfield, which it was never intended that I should win. Then Miller dug his own grave. He opposed me there and I lost the seat.
"I have to remember, however, that you are still smarting under a defeat inflicted by these people. What I cannot altogether understand is this: How was it that you were entirely deprived of their support at Hellesfield. You yourself are supposed to be practically a Socialist, at any rate from the point of view of the staider of my party.
Bad business, that Hellesfield affair." "It was a very bad business indeed," Tallente agreed, "chiefly because it shows that our agents there must be utterly incapable." The Prime Minister coughed. "You think so, Tallente, eh? Now their point of view is that you let Miller make all the running, let him make his points and never got an answer in never got a grip on the people, eh?"
In his ill-chosen tourist clothes, untidy collar and badly arranged tie, he presented a contrast to his companion of which he seemed, in a way, bitterly conscious. "You are staying near here?" Tallente enquired civilly. "Over near Lynton. Dartrey has a cottage there. I came down yesterday." "Surely you were in Hellesfield the day before yesterday?" Miller smiled ill-naturedly.
"If the newspapers are to be believed, your strategies up at Hellesfield scarcely give one an exalted idea of your tactics," she replied coldly. "They all seem to agree that Mr. Tallente was cheated out of his seat." The intruder smiled tolerantly. He glanced around the room as though expecting to be asked to seat himself. No invitation of the sort, however, was accorded him.
You did not sympathise with me in my defeat at Hellesfield because you underrated, as you always have underrated, the vastly growing strength and dangerous popularity of the party into whose hands the government of this country will shortly pass." Mr. Horlock frowned portentously. This was not at all the way in which he should have been addressed by an unsuccessful follower.
"You succeeded in cheating me out of the seat. I still don't know why." He turned as though appealing to Dartrey, and Dartrey accepted the challenge, swinging a little around in his chair and tapping his cigarette against the table, preparatory to lighting it. "You lost Hellesfield, Mr. Tallente, as you would have lost any seat north of Bedford," he declared.
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