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The Liberals were for the most part careless and over-confident. Their man had won every election for twenty years past, and they could not believe that this Tory lawyer was destined to accomplish what all the local magnates had failed in attempting. The attention of the country was fixed upon the Vanebury election, and Sydney Campion had become at once the observed of all observers.
He well knew what the effect of this would be on his friends in London, and how he would have earned their gratitude if he could carry the seat on these lines. On the day before the poll, Sir John Pynsent came to Vanebury, to attend the last of the public meetings. "Admirably done, so far!" he said, as he grasped Sydney's hand at the station. "How are things looking?"
I had the most distinct evidence of that at Vanebury." "There was a considerable turnover of votes, I suppose?" "Unquestionably, and amongst all classes." "Yes, that is encouraging, so far. But in view of the new franchise, it does not go nearly far enough. The idol must be overthrown." "Who is to do it?" Sydney asked. "That is hardly for me to say. But it will be done."
This Vanebury election would not, there was reason to think, be so much affected by money-bags as the election at Dormer was supposed to be, sixteen or eighteen months before. Yet money was necessary, and Sydney did not on this occasion refuse the aid which was pressed upon him.
"You are member for Vanebury," she said, rather abruptly, when they had dragged little Jack some distance up the grassy slope. "I have that honor." "I hope," she said, with a mixture of gentleness and decision which took him by surprise, "that you mean to pay some attention to the condition of the working-classes in Vanebury?" "Well, I don't know; is there any special reason?"
Her property is all in Vanebury, by the bye: you must let her talk to you about the miners if you want to win her favor. She will be of age in a few months." "I shall not try to win her favor." "Dear me, how black you look, Mr. Campion. Are you vexed that you have not made her acquaintance?" "Not at all," said Sydney, clearing his brow. "How could I have looked at her when you were there?"
You know she has a nice little place of her own just outside Vanebury, and she vows she'll go and live there when she is twenty-one, and work for the good of the people. My authority over her will cease entirely when she is of age." "But not your influence," said Sydney. "Well I don't know that I have very much. The proper person to influence Nan will be her husband, when she has one."
Sir John's father had married a second time, when his son was a youth at Eton, and Anna, the fruit of this union, inherited, not only her mother's jointure of twenty thousand pounds, but a considerable fortune from her mother's elder brother, who had been a manufacturer in Vanebury.
I am so much interested in the Vanebury working people, although we are here some miles distant from them, that when I heard you were coming I made up my mind at once that I would speak to you." "You have friends, perhaps, in that district?" said Sydney. "N no not exactly," she said, hesitating. "But I know a good deal about Vanebury."
Sydney was a rising man, but it was thought that Sir John might look higher for his beautiful young sister. The Parliamentary success of the new member for Vanebury had been as great as his most reasonable friends anticipated for him, if not quite as meteoric as one or two flatterers had predicted.
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