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She was cruel in her clear indication of the footing upon which they met, and the Governor's uneasy glance of appeal would produce nothing better than a cold interest in the scenery of the Premier's constituency. Medland was glad when Lady Eynesford turned to the Chief Justice and released him; his relief was so great that it was hardly marred by finding Mrs. Puttock on his other side. Yet Mrs.
"The hopeful part of the situation is," said Sir Robert, "that Puttock is almost bound to fall out with somebody, either with Norburn, for the reason you name, or with Coxon, because Coxon will try to rule the roast, or with Medland himself." "Why should he quarrel with Medland?" "Why does the heir quarrel with the king? Besides, there's the Prohibition Question.
In the garden the question was settled without serious difference of opinion. If Sir Robert Perry really could not go on and Lady Eynesford was by no means prepared to concede even that then Mr. Puttock, bourgeois as he was, or Mr. Coxon, conceited and priggish though he might be, must come in. At any rate, the one indisputable fact was the impossibility of Mr. Medland.
He quickened his pace and went up to them. Benham rose and took off his hat. Medland ignored him. "I was looking for you, Daisy," he said. "I want you." Daisy stood up, with relief. "Good day, Mr. Medland," said Benham. Medland bowed coldly. "Mr. Puttock was good enough to introduce me." "I am ready, father," said Daisy. "Good-bye, Mr. Benham."
Medland's followers were not there in much force, being for the most part employed elsewhere, and indeed at no time much given to club-life, or suited for it, but there were many of Perry's, and still more of those who had followed Puttock, or were reported to be about to follow Coxon, and among them the members for several divisions in and near Kirton.
Puttock played when she was at home, but in her absence the attempt made by a few rustics to sing the hymns had not been a musical success. The whole affair had been very sad, and so the Paragon had felt it who knew, and was remembering through the whole service, how these things are done in transatlantic cities. "The weather kept the people away I suppose," said Morton.
"I hope you're not very angry with me, Miss Daisy?" said Puttock, thinking she might resent his desertion of the Premier. "Oh, but I am!" said Daisy, and truly enough, whatever the reason might be. "Well, you mustn't visit it on my friend here, who is anxious to make your acquaintance. Miss Medland Mr. Benham." Benham sat down and began to make himself agreeable.
"Nothing known of him except that he came to Kirton a few months back, did nothing, seemed to have plenty of money, took his liquor, played a hand at cards, hurt nobody, seemingly knew nobody." "Why, I saw him with Mr. Puttock." "Yes; but Mr. Puttock knows nothing of him, except that he said he came from Shepherdstown. That's why Puttock was civil to him. The place is in his constituency."
On they went, reminding one another of the bald man in the third row who cheered so lustily, of the fat woman who had somehow got into the front row and fanned herself all the time, of rude things shouted about Messrs. Puttock and Coxon, and so forth. The Premier, listening with one ear, opened his paper; but the first thing he saw was not about his procession.
The elder men gathered round Puttock and Jewell, and listened to a demonstration that the Premier's public life was at an end; the younger rallied Coxon, whose premature stateliness sometimes invited this treatment, dubbing him "Kingmaker Coxon," and hilariously repudiating the idea that he did not enjoy the title.
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