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Miss Pettigrew had suggested marriage for Lalage. I had at once thought of Vittie. Miss Pettigrew was not thinking of Vittie. I felt myself getting red in the face as she looked at me. "I couldn't," I said at last. "This influenza has completely unstrung me. I shouldn't have the nerve. You must admit, Miss Pettigrew, that it would require nerve."
That just shows the amount of good the A.S.P.L. is doing in the district. It's making its power felt in every direction." "If Vittie dies " "He won't. That sort of man never does. I'm sorry for the aunt of course. She seemed a quiet, respectable sort of woman and, curiously enough, very fond of Vittie.
I ventured to suggest. "No," said Lalage, " mosphere. It wants it far worse than the other air. I had no idea till I took on this job that politics are such utter sinks as they are. What you tell me now about Vittie is just another example of what I mean. I dare say now it will turn out that he went to bed in the hope of escaping my exposure of the way he's been telling lies."
I had to explain myself. "The only object I should have in getting up," I said, speaking very slowly and distinctly, "would be to prevent Vittie going round the constituency when I couldn't be after him. Now that he's down himself he can't do anything more than I can; so I may just as well stay where I am." Even then McMeekin failed to catch my point.
The boys at the back of the hall, who hate Vittie worse than the devil, nearly raised the roof off with the way they shouted. I could see that McMeekin didn't half like it. He's rather given himself away by supporting Vittie. Well, as long as the cheering went on Miss Beresford stood and smiled at them.
"My idea," said Titherington, "is that you should see her and explain to her that we've had enough of that sort of thing and that for the future she'd better stick entirely to Vittie." I am always glad to see Lalage.
Home Rule, you know, and all that sort of blasted rot. Then she took the skin off Vittie for about ten minutes. Man, but it would have done you good to hear her. The most innocent sort of remark Vittie ever made in his life she got a twist on it so that it came out a regular howling lie.
"Even the Nationalists would be obliged to admit that I'd done a particularly noble thing." "I don't believe Vittie has the influenza." "McMeekin said so." "It would be just like Vittie," said Titherington, "to pretend he had it so as to get an excuse for calling in McMeekin. He knows McMeekin has been wobbling ever since you got ill." This silenced me.
Hilda is, or was, a nice, innocent girl. Her mother won't like her hearing that sort of language." "Bloody wasn't the word she used," said Titherington, "but she gave us all the impression that it was what she meant!" "Go on." "Of course I thought, in fact we all thought, that she was referring to Vittie and O'Donoghue, especially Vittie.
"It's a well-known fact that there is nothing so uncontrollable as a tiger once it has got the taste of human blood, and Miss Beresford, having found out how nice it is to call you and Vittie and O'Donoghue liars, isn't likely to be persuaded " "What are you going to do?" said Titherington truculently. "I? I'm going back to bed as soon as I can, and when once back I'm going to stay there."
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