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Then he said: "It won't do us any harm if Vittie is made to smell hell by a few militant Suffragettes." "After the hole he's put us in about temperance," I said, "he'll deserve the worst they can do to him." "In any ordinary case I'd hesitate; for women are a nuisance, a d d nuisance.
"I'm often sorry he didn't. He wouldn't say things like that if he had a child of his own." There was a great deal of angry feeling in Ballygore and indeed all through the constituency when Lalage went home. It was generally believed that O'Donoghue, Vittie, and I had somehow driven her away, but this was quite unjust to us and we all three felt it.
She certainly had a good subject and a fine opportunity. Vittie, O'Donoghue, and I were all in bed. Our chief supporters, Titherington and the others, were helpless, with temperatures ranging from 102 to 105 degrees. But even if we had all been quite well and in full possession of our fighting powers we could not have made any effective defence against Lalage. She had an astonishingly good case.
Vittie, as Titherington told me from the first, never had a chance of success. He was only nominated in the hope that he might take some votes away from me. I hope his friends were satisfied with the result. Three of his eight votes would have given me a majority. Titherington wrote me a long letter some time afterward, as soon, in fact, as he was well enough to do sums.
You'll hardly believe it, but when she'd finished with O'Donoghue and Vittie she went on to " "Me, I suppose." "No. Me," said Titherington. "She said she didn't blame you in the least because she didn't think you had sense enough to lie like a real politician, and that those two letters about the Temperance Question " "She'd got ahold of those?"
"Very well," I said, "I'll have two best men. I don't see why I shouldn't. Who's the other?" "Lalage mentioned a Mr. Tithers." "Titherington is his name," I said, "and if I have him I don't see how I can very well leave out Vittie, O'Donoghue, and McMeekin. I don't know how you feel about the matter, but I rather object to being made a public show of with five best men."
You know that." "I know that of course; but " "It won't be at all pleasant for you when Miss Pettigrew comes out with that plan of hers for marrying Lalage to Vittie. There'll be a horrid row. From what I know of Lalage I feel sure that she'll resent the suggestion.
Titherington seemed to think this remark foolish, though I meant it as an additional evidence of my determination to oppose Vittie to the last. "Read the letter," he said. I read it. If such a thing had been physically possible it would have put my hair into curl. It did, I feel almost certain, make it rise up and stand on end.
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?"
Vittie, apart altogether from any question of the genuineness of his influenza, was in the narrowest straits of us all. He appears to have lied with an abandon and a recklessness far superior to O'Donoghue's or mine. Lalage, so I heard afterward, spent an hour and a half denouncing us and devoted about two-thirds of the time to Vittie.
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