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He was a highly educated and clever man; he offered her a prospect of fuller life than she had yet imagined; perhaps it was a choice between him and the ordinary husband such as fell to Polterham girls. Yet again, if he did not really care for her only for her money?
Between six and eight on the previous evening he had seen the members of that "secret caucus" whose existence outraged Mr. Chown in other words, the half-dozen capable citizens who practically managed the affairs of Liberal Polterham and had arrived at an understanding with them which made it all but a settled thing that Denzil Quarrier should be their prospective candidate.
The musician laughed carelessly, and, not deigning any other reply, went to talk with his hostess. The Polterham Literary Institute was a "hot-bed of Radicalism." For the last year or two this had been generally understood.
Hornibrook's library; he came at three in the afternoon, and sat talking till nearly six. Not a few Polterham matrons would have considered that proceeding highly improper, but such a thought never occurred to Denzil; and Mrs. Wade would have spoken her mind very distinctly to any one who wished to circumscribe female freedom in such respects.
The fact is, old Polterham got into a thoroughly unwholesome condition, and we're anything but right yet. Perhaps a little honest fighting between Liberal and Tory may help to clear the air. Well, now, that brings me to what I really wish to talk about. To tell you the truth, I don't feel half satisfied with what I have done.
"My dear fellow, you are so naturally a Tory that you never troubled to think to what party you belong. And I can understand you well enough; I have leanings that way myself. Still, when I get down to Polterham I shall call myself a Radical. What sensible man swears by a party?
The Woman question was rather a dangerous one in Polterham just now; that period of Revivalism, and the subsequent campaign of Mrs. Hitchin, had left a sore feeling in not a few of the townsfolk. "Don't be afraid, Mr. Toft," was the laughing reply. "You will stand amazed at my moderation; I am dead against Female Suffrage." "That is safe, I think. You'll find Mrs.
From time to time the Mercury uttered a note of warning, of protest, but with no echo from the respectable middle-class abodes where Polterham Conservatism dozed in self-satisfaction.
He was a Cambridge graduate, but had never been able to make much use of his education and abilities; having reached middle age, and finding himself without resources, he was glad to accept this post at the Institute. About him stood three Polterham worthies: Mr. Chown, draper, a member of the Corporation; Mr. Vawdrey, coal-merchant; and Mr. Murgatroyd, dentist.
Well, I was going to tell you: Glazzard comes from my own town, Polterham. We were at the Grammar School there together; but he read AEschylus and Tacitus whilst I was grubbing over Eutropius and the Greek declensions." "Is he so much older then? He seemed to me" "Six years older about five-and-thirty. He's going down to Polterham on Saturday, and I think I shall go with him." "Go with him?
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