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"She will not do that; she has too much good taste." "Good taste won't avail her! You know what her plans are already, to live in Vanebury as soon as she is twenty-one, and devote herself to the welfare of the working-people! Don't you call that a fad? Won't she make a laughing stock of herself and of us too?
She has got some Workmen's Club on hand that she wants the member to open, with an appropriate speech, so you had better prepare yourself." "Miss Pynsent is interested in the Vanebury workmen. I shall be delighted to help at any time." "Too much interested," said Sir John, bluntly. "I'll tell her she'll be an out and out Radical by and by.
Sydney was full of excitement about his contest at Vanebury, and he received the congratulations and good wishes of his friends with much complacency. He was already the accepted Conservative candidate, being nominated from the Oligarchy Club in response to an appeal from the local leaders. He had even been recommended by name in a letter from Mr.
But he could only answer as in duty bound "Not angry in the very least, Miss Pynsent." "I am so glad. Because I want to talk to you about Vanebury one day. But I must not stop now, for there are all these people to talk to, you know." "I may ask you to forgive the stupidity of my mistake, then?" said Sydney quickly. "It was not stupid: how could you know who I was?
But one invitation, given by Sir John Pynsent, for the Sunday subsequent to his election or rather, from Saturday to Monday he thought it expedient as well as pleasant to accept. Vanebury was a very few miles distant from St. John's country-house, and when the baronet, in capital spirits over his friend's success, urged him to run over to Culverley for a day or two, he could not well refuse.
She was not so ignorant of the ways of men as to believe that their lives were always free from stain; indeed she knew more than most girls of the weakness and wickedness of mankind, partly because she was well acquainted with many Vanebury working-people, who were her tenants, partly because Lady Pynsent was a woman of the world and did not choose that Nan should go about with her eyes closed, and partly because she read widely and had never been restricted in the choice of books.
But his supercilious contempt for the county was well veiled, and the people who entered into conversation with Sydney Campion, the new M.P. for Vanebury, put him down as a very agreeable man, as well as a rising politician. His own position was pleasant enough. He was treated with manifest distinction flattered, complimented, well-nigh caressed.
He did not feel the slightest difficulty in talking for an hour at a stretch, and two or three times on the same day; and, indeed, it would have been strange if he had, considering his Union experience at Cambridge and his practice at the Bar. Sydney won upon all classes at Vanebury, and the sporting gentlemen in that thriving borough were soon giving odds upon his chance of success.
Murray told me that she believes you thought I was the governess; and if I had been, how odd it must have seemed to you that I should talk about your duties to the Vanebury laborers! You know I have some property there, and so " "Oh, it was perfectly natural, and I never thought of it again," said Sydney lamely. But she went on unheeding
So he took his money, and went down, and before he had been in Vanebury six hours the Conservatives there understood that they had a very strong candidate, who would give a good account of himself, and who deserved to be worked for.
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