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Puttock was graciousness itself; he remembered, with gratitude and surprising alacrity, his visitor's local services to the party; had he been still in office, it would have been his delight no less than his duty to press Benham's incontestable claims; he would have felt that he was merely paying a small part of the debt he owed Shepherdstown and one of its leading men, and would, at the same time, have enjoyed the conviction that he was enlisting in the public service a man of tried integrity and ability.
Puttock had introduced Benham to him and the acquaintance had continued it was a political acquaintance purely. "You don't know anything about him before he came here?" Kilshaw suddenly perceived that he was being questioned, whereas his object had been to question. "You say," he observed, "that you haven't got what you'd call a clue. What do you mean?" "You can tell Mr.
Sir Robert at first refused, but when Kilshaw urged, he read and glanced up at him, so Medland thought, with a look of sadness. Coxon had got a paper now, and left biting his nails to pore over it; he passed it to Puttock, and the fat man bulged his cheeks in seeming wonder. Even his waverer, the one who had cheered, was deep in it. Only Norburn was unconscious of it.
Now and then he distantly threatened them, oftener he made as though to convince their cool judgment; again he would invoke the sentiment of old alliance in them, or stir their pity for the men whose cause he pleaded. Once he flashed out in bitter mockery at Coxon, then jested in mild irony at Puttock and his "rich man's revolution."
Benham and his secret; they were heartily at his disposal, for he could pay a better price than Puttock could; and he laid them by in his arsenal, for use, he carefully added to himself, only in the very last emergency. "Not yet, you fool!" he had whispered to his tool in anger and alarm.
The Premier was now skilfully paring away what his lieutenant had said, and justifying every proposition he advanced by a reference to Mr. Puttock's previous speeches. Mr. Puttock, in his turn, fidgeted, and Coxon smiled sardonically.
Kilshaw, assuming Benham loved the Premier no more than Mr. Puttock, remarked, "I'd give something handsome to see that fellow smashed." "Would you?" asked Benham, with an eager smile; Kilshaw promised him a better opening than Puttock. He stepped across to Medland, raising his hat. "A moment, Mr. Medland. You have not changed your mind on that little matter?"
Puttock when that worthy stepped across from his warehouse to the Club about five o'clock. Inside the Club, also, excitement was not lacking. The Houses of Parliament were deserted for this more central spot, and many members anxiously discussed their principles and their prospects, and the relation between the two.
They almost tumbled over one another now in their haste to reach where their tongues could play freely. Kilshaw and Perry, the Treasurer and the waverers, all slipped out, and Norburn, knowing nothing but simply wearied of Puttock, followed them. Scarce twenty were left in the House, and the galleries had poured half their contents into the great room which served for a lobby outside.
Large concerns are delicate concerns." "Come, Kilshaw, Puttock's a capitalist; he'll see Capital isn't wronged." "Puttock is all very well in his way; but what do you say to Jewell and Norburn?" "Jewell's an old-style Radical: he won't do you much harm. You hit the nail on the head when you mention Norburn.
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