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I'll see that anything she says at our meetings is kept out of the papers, and she won't get the chance of making regular speeches at Vittie's." I felt quite sorry for Titherington. The interview with Lalage had evidently been even more drastic than I expected. "Perhaps," I said soothingly, "they'll give her six weeks for the Jun. Soph.
"You were right. After the narrow shave you had with the bishops you can't be too careful. And the amount is almost certain to be over two pounds. Even Vittie's character must be worth more than that." "Vittie," said Lalage, "appears to be the very kind of man we want to get at. I've been reading his speeches." "I expect," I said, "that you'll enjoy O'Donoghue too.
Titherington's tone suggested that the other candidate would certainly be my superior and that Vittie's chances against me were better than they would be against any one else. I turned round with a groan and lay with my face to the wall. Titherington went on talking.
I wouldn't give tuppence for Vittie's chances of getting a dozen votes in this part of the division. We had two temperance secretaries, damned asses, to propose votes of thanks." "For my influenza?" "You're getting better," said Titherington, "not a doubt of it.
She finished him off by saying that Ananias and Sapphira were a gentleman and a lady compared to the ordinary Liberal, because they had the decency to drop down dead when they'd finished, whereas Vittie's friends simply went on and told more. By that time there wasn't one in the hall could do more than croak, they'd got so hoarse with all the cheering.
If Vittie is crafty enough to devise such a complicated scheme-for bribing McMeekin without bringing himself within the meshes of the Corrupt Practices Act he is certainly too wise to allow himself to be subjected to my nurse. "Anyway," said Titherington, "it's not Vittie's influenza I came here to talk about." "Have you got the key of your bag with you?"
He tried, after his own foolish fashion, to cheer and encourage me. "Poor Vittie's got it too," he said. "I was called in to see him last night." "Influenza?" "Yes. It's becoming a perfect epidemic in the district. I have forty cases on my list." "If Vittie's got it," I said, "there's no reason in the world why I should get up." McMeekin is a singularly stupid man. He did not see what I meant.
"He says he has," said Titherington, with strong emphasis on the word "says." "Then I wish you'd go round and offer him the use of my nurse. I don't want her." "He has two aunts, and besides " I was not going to allow Vittie's aunts to stand in my way. I interrupted Titherington with an argument which I felt sure he would appreciate. "He may have twenty aunts," I said; "that's not my point.
Sometimes distinctions were made between the candidates and one of us was declared to be a more skilful or determined liar than the other two. O'Donoghue was sometimes placed in the position of the superlative degree of comparison. So was I. But Vittie suffered most frequently in this way. Lalage had always displayed a special virulence in dealing with Vittie's public utterances.
I gave him to understand that Lalage must be either enticed or forced to leave Bally-gore. I intended to go onto a description of the sort of things Lalage had been doing, of Titherington's helplessness and Vittie's peril. But I was brought up short at the end of the first page by the want of blotting paper.
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