hotellier

Updated: May 2, 2025

He did not return for an hour and a half, and when he did, his expression had altered to one of decided triumph, though still mysterious and silent Zotique, in fact, the evening before, when he drove to Miséricorde in Josephte's little gig, found what he had suspected to be the truth, that Benoit and Spoon had bought every vote of the hamlet; and paid for them, in the interest of Libergent; but he still believed it possible, Benoit being incapacitated, and Spoon, he felt sure, not likely to turn up to bend this plastic material the other way with the same tool, and casting, therefore, aside all delicate distinctions, he succeeded, by a reasonable hour in the evening, in obtaining once more the adhesion of the hotellier and most of the population, giving for he had no Government funds like his opponents his own personal notes for the amounts, and enjoining on the tavern-keeper to have the whole of the suffrages polled early.

W. D. (William Douw) Lighthall - The Young Seigneur: Or, Nation-Making