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Mr Closerstil thought he understood all this, and sent more, and still more men to drink beer. He even caused taking infinite trouble to secure secrecy in the matter three gallons of British brandy to be ordered and paid for as the best French. But, nevertheless, Mr Reddypalm made no sign to show that he considered that the right thing had been done.
It became notified to Reddypalm with sufficient clearness that his bill for the past election should be paid without further question; and, therefore, at five o'clock the Mayor of Barchester proclaimed the results of the contest in the following figures: Scatcherd 378 Moffat 376 Mr Reddypalm's two votes had decided the question.
"It goes agin the grain with a man not to have his little bill paid, and specially at election time," again urged Mr Reddypalm. Mr Romer had not much time to think about it; but he knew well that matters were so nearly balanced, that the votes of Mr Reddypalm and his son were of inestimable value. "If it's only about your bill," said Mr Romer, "I'll see to have that settled.
The purity of Barchester was not contaminated during the day by one such curse as this. But a man, and a publican, would be required to do some great deed in the public line; to open some colossal tap; to draw beer for the million; and no one would be so fit as Mr Reddypalm if only it might turn out that Mr Moffat should, in the coming February, take his seat as member for Barchester.
But Mr Reddypalm was a man of humble desires, whose ambitions soared no higher than this that his little bills should be duly settled. It is wonderful what love an innkeeper has for his bill in its entirety.
Mr Reddypalm had stated, first his unwillingness to vote at all: he had, he said, given over politics, and was not inclined to trouble his mind again with the subject; then he had spoken of his great devotion to the Duke of Omnium, under whose grandfathers his grandfather had been bred: Mr Nearthewinde had, as he said, been with him, and proved to him beyond a shadow of a doubt that it would show the deepest ingratitude on his part to vote against the duke's candidate.
He, hearing how matters were likely to go with this conscientious publican, and feeling himself peculiarly capable of dealing with such delicate scruples, undertook to look into the case in hand. Early, therefore, on the morning of the election, he sauntered down the cross street in which hung out the sign of the Brown Bear, and, as he expected, found Mr Reddypalm near his own door.
"But," said Reddypalm, "a man likes to be paid his little bill." "Surely, surely," said the barrister.
I know the value of an Englishman's franchise too well to wish to sell it. I would not demean myself so low; no, not though five-and-twenty pound a vote was going, as there was in the good old times and that's not so long ago neither." "I am sure you wouldn't, Reddypalm; I'm sure you wouldn't. But an honest man like you should stick to old friends.
In due process of time the hearing of the petition came on, and then who so happy, sitting at his ease at his London Inn, blowing his cloud from a long pipe, with measureless content, as Mr Reddypalm? Mr Reddypalm was the one great man of the contest. All depended on Mr Reddypalm; and well he did his duty.
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