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But, bless your heart, my dear, they never get doubted. Bertha took this for a satiric dig at the absent Thistlewood, and spoke up for him, needlessly, as it happened. 'Still waters run deep, Mr. Protheroe. 'Some of 'em do, responded Mr. Protheroe, with profoundest gloom, which lightened suddenly into a smile as bright as sunshine. 'But some of 'em don't run at all.
Spring bulbs are still a spécialité of my gardening. I buy them fresh every autumn but of Messrs. Protheroe and Morris, in Cheapside; not at the dealers'. Thus they are comparatively inexpensive.
Lane Protheroe bowed again with the same gay flourish, and recovering himself from the bow with an upward swing of the head, followed the women-folk into the wide kitchen as if he had been crossing the floor in a minuet.
Not that I should take any particular blame or shame for having begun it myself, but since that's how you look at it, dear why, I should like you to be satisfied. 'Do you think, Mr. Protheroe, demanded Bertha, 'that it's the way to win a girl's esteem to brawl about her in public on a Sunday? 'That's what Thistlewood said, Lane answered, with cunning simplicity.
The White Lion candidate and the Club, of course, according to their ancient and laudable custom, scattered their money profusely to purchase votes; they had an interest in doing so; but Mr. Protheroe's and Sir Samuel Romilly's appeared to be a bad speculation. Mr. Protheroe and his friends could not have expended less than twenty thousand pounds.
Protheroe, without speaking, sauntered out at the gate, vaulted a stile opposite, and paused in a field pathway. Thistlewood followed, throwing first one leg and then the other over the rail with a sort of laboured deliberation. 'Now, said Lane. 'We'll walk on a little bit, answered Thistlewood, and there was silence for a minute or two as they strode along the grass.
You've always been spoken of up till now as a man to play fair, but now it strikes me you play very far from fair, and cut a poor figure. As for threats a man who won't take a hiding when it's offered to him what's he good for, I should like to know? Here, as elsewhere, Mr. Protheroe was true to nature, and spoke with striking emphasis.
By this time Hannah Protheroe had got herself comfortably into a chair, and no doubt her personal pleasure in the evening's occupation was considerably enhanced by the unconscious feeling that she was the richer woman of the two.
"That a great number of freemen were employed by the said Richard Hart Davis and Edward Protheroe, or their agents, under the denomination of bludgeon men, or pretended constables, and that various sums of money were paid by the said Richard Hart Davis and Edward Protheroe, or by their agents, committees, friends, managers or others on their behalf, to influence such of them as were entitled to vote, or pretend to have a right to vote, at the said election, and to induce them to give their votes for the said Richard Hart Davis and Edward Protheroe, Esqrs.
But the Romillites in Bristol were not a rush better or more liberal than the friends of Davis or Protheroe.
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