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Callender sounds better for game, I think." So the letter which was to save the young grouse was dated from Callender; and Mr. Quintus Slide having written the word, threw down his pen, came off his stool, and rushed at once at his subject. "Well, now, Finn," he said, "don't you know that you've treated me badly about Loughton?" "Treated you badly about Loughton!"
"During the late debate," so ran a passage in the leading article, "Mr. Finn, Lord Brentford's Irish nominee for his pocket-borough at Loughton, did at last manage to stand on his legs and open his mouth. If we are not mistaken, this is Mr. Finn's third session in Parliament, and hitherto he has been unable to articulate three sentences, though he has on more than one occasion made the attempt.
"I believe if you were to propose to Mr. Kennedy to give all his property to the Church Missionaries and emigrate to New Zealand, he'd begin to consider it seriously after a time." "I shall not try, at any rate." "Because you don't want to go to New Zealand; but you might try about Loughton for poor Mr. Finn."
"Whether that be true or not, Phineas, I shall not accept my father's interest at Loughton, unless it be offered to me in a way in which it never will be offered. You know me well enough to be sure that I shall not change my mind. Nor will he. And, therefore, you may go down to Loughton with a pure conscience as far as I am concerned."
"I see you have found the left thigh-bone," I remarked, observing that this did not appear in the list. "Yes," said the sergeant; "that turned up yesterday evening in a big pond called Baldwin's Pond in the Sandpit plain, near Little Monk Wood." "Is that near here?" I asked. "In the forest up Loughton way," was the reply.
"But if you go on scolding me," she continued, "what I shall do is to go to bed directly you go away." He hesitated for a moment longer, and then left the room without another word. Mr. Slide's Grievance Our hero was elected member for Loughton without any trouble to him or, as far as he could see, to any one else.
Every one of those Loughton tradesmen was proud of his own personal subjection to the Earl! From Loughton he went to Loughlinter, having promised to be back in the borough for the election. Mr. Grating would propose him, and he was to be seconded by Mr. Shortribs, the butcher and grazier. Mention had been made of a Conservative candidate, and Mr.
Phineas Finn would be found "nowhere," and he rather thought also that when he showed himself again, as he certainly should do, in the midst of that democratic electoral district as the popular candidate for the honour of representing it in Parliament, that democratic electoral district would accord to him a reception very different from that which he was now receiving from the Earl's lacqueys in the parliamentary village of Loughton.
Turnbull to be dealt with, a clause directly disfranchising seven single-winged boroughs, of which Loughton was of course one, a clause to which the Government must either submit or object. Submission would be certain defeat in one way, and objection would be as certain defeat in another, if the gentlemen on the other side were not disposed to assist the ministers.
Quintus Slide has gone down to Loughton to stand against him." "And why not?" said Mr. Kennedy. "My dear!" ejaculated Lady Laura. "Mr. Quintus Slide will no doubt lose his time and his money; but he will gain the prestige of having stood for a borough, which will be something for him on the staff of the People's Banner," said Mr. Kennedy.
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