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The amount of electioneering capital which could be made out of an act of heroism of that kind why, it would catch the popular imagination more than if I jumped into a mill race to save Vittie from a runaway horse, and everybody knows that if you can bring off a spoof of that sort an election is as good as won." Titherington growled. "All the papers would have it," I said.
"Did Miss Beresford speak at the meeting?" I asked. The nurse came over to my bed and insisted on slipping her thermometer under my arm. It was a useless and insulting thing to do, but I bore it in silence because I wanted to hear about Lalage's speech. Titherington did not answer at once, and when he did it was in an unsatisfactory way. "Oh, she spoke all right," he said.
I'm nearly sure my temperature is up again." Titherington scowled, but he knew he was helpless. As he left the room he stopped for a moment and turned to me. "What beats me about the whole performance," he said, "is that she never said a single word about woman's suffrage from start to finish.
It seemed to me that he had played me a mean trick and I resented it. Greatly to my surprise Titherington apologized meekly. "It wasn't my fault," he said, "and I hadn't time to communicate with you. I only got this at twenty minutes past eight and had no more than time to get here myself." He handed me a telegram. "Eleven quite impossible. Say 8.30. Jun. Soph. Ord. begins at 9.30.
I had promised my uncle and given the Conservative and Unionist Parliamentary Association to understand that I would place myself unreservedly in Titherington's hands. "I see," I said, "that I pledge myself " "You give the Amalgamated Association to understand that you pledge yourself," said Titherington. "The same thing, I suppose?" "Not quite," said Titherington grinning again.
He's going baldheaded for some temperance fad and is backed by a score or so of Presbyterian ministers. We'll have to call canny about temperance." "If you want me to wear any kind of glass button on the lapel of my coat, I'll do it; but I'm not going to sign a total abstinence pledge. I'd rather not be elected." Titherington was himself drinking whiskey and water while we talked.
I am glad, very, that it is you who have to face them, not I. I do not know anything in the world that I should dislike more." Titherington took rooms for me in the better of the two hotels in Ballygore and I went down there on the day on which he told me I ought to go. I had as travelling companion a very pleasant man, the only other occupant of the compartment in which I was.
"Anyhow," I said, "it's the proper thing, the usual thing to do?" "O'Donoghue has done it, and I expect that ruffian Vittie will have to in the end, little as he'll like it." I signed. "Here," said Titherington, "is the letter of the joint committee of the Temperance Societies." "There appear to be twenty-three of them," I said, glancing at the signatures.
"As a matter of fact, Selby-Harrison it's a hyphenated surname is a man." "Oh, is it?" said Titherington, using the neuter pronoun because, I suppose, he was still uncertain about Selby-Harrison's sex. "I wish," I said, "that I knew exactly what they've done." "It doesn't in the least matter to us. So long as she's the kind of young woman who does something we shall be satisfied."
"It's not much of a chance," I said, "but it will keep you busy for a while and anything is better than sitting still and repining." "In the infernal fix we're in," said Titherington, "anything is worth trying." During the time that Titherington and I were thrown together I learned to respect and admire him, but I never cared for him as a companion.
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