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"What d'you think?" said Clary; "there's a man of the name of . I wish you'd guess the name of this man who is going to stand against papa, Mr. Newton." "The name won't make much difference," said Sir Thomas. "Ontario Moggs!" said Clary. "Do you think it possible, Mr. Newton, that Percycross, the town where one of the Percys set up a cross in the time of the Crusaders, didn't he, papa?
Griffenbottom hurried over to the dear old borough, still hoping, but could do nothing. The scent of the battle was in the air, and the foolish men of Percycross were keen for blood. Mr. Griffenbottom smiled and promised, and declared to himself that there was no peace for the politician on this side the grave.
"Margate seems to be very jolly." "Oh, I like it. But then we are not swells, you know. Have you heard the news? Ontario Moggs is going to stand to be 'member of Parliament' for Percycross." "My rival!" That was the only word he uttered approaching to the subject of love. "I don't know anything about that, Mr. Newton. But it's true." "Why, Sir Thomas Underwood is going to stand."
The expense in all these matters fell of course upon the shoulders of the father. "I don't believe in them humbugs no longer," said Mr. Moggs senior. Moggs junior, who had felt the enthusiasm of the young men of Percycross, and who had more to get and less to lose than his father, did believe.
He would steal a march on Trigger. He went out into the sitting-room, and there was Trigger already seated in the arm-chair, studying the list of the voters of Percycross! Heavens, what a man! "I thought I'd look in early, and they told me you were coming out or I'd have just stepped into your room." Into his very bed-room! Sir Thomas shuddered as he heard the proposition.
"I'm not going to break my heart about him, Mr. Moggs." "I'd try to be the death of him, if you did." "That would be a right down tragedy, because then you'd be hung, and so there'd be an end of us all. I don't think I'd do that, Mr. Moggs." "Polly, I sometimes feel as though I didn't know what to do." "Tell me the whole story of how you went on down at Percycross.
There could be no possible connexion between this inquiry and the expediency of Sir Thomas living at home; but, after some fashion, he reconciled further delay to his conscience by the fact that the Percycross election was not even yet quite settled. No doubt it would be necessary that he should again go to Percycross during the sitting of the Commission.
"Why should I pay it?" said Griffenbottom. "My seat was safe enough. The fact is, if money was paid, as to which I know nothing, it was paid to get the second seat. Everybody knows that. Why should any one have paid money for me? I was safe. I never have any difficulty; everybody knows that. I could come in for Percycross twenty times running, without buying a vote. Isn't that true, Trigger?"
His personal popularity in the borough was undoubted, and his gout made him almost a demi-god. Nobody heard a word that he said; but then he had no desire to be heard. To be seen standing up there, a martyr to the gout, but still shouting for Percycross, was enough for his purpose. Sir Thomas encountered a very different reception. He was received with yells, apparently from the whole crowd.
They were forced to admit that Percycross was not one of those well-arranged boroughs in which the expenses of an election are all defrayed by the public spirit of the citizens. It soon became clear that the deputation had waited upon Moggs, not only because Moggs was a good Radical, but because also Moggs was supposed to be a Radical with a command of money.
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