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The Park was empty, and the old horse jogged along peacefully. Insensibly he found himself thinking about what would happen when the new House met, and sparing a smile for Coxon's defeat, though he was afraid that gentleman would be only too well provided for.
Anticipated as this issue was, it was greeted with a loud groan, soon changed to an exultant cheer when it was declared that Coxon had lost his seat; no event, short of the defeat of Kilshaw himself, would have pleased the crowd so much; even in the Club men seemed very resigned; only Coxon's little band mourned the fall of their chief. "A facer for him," remarked the Captain. Mr. Kilshaw smiled.
They next consulted, what part would be most convenient to clean the vessel, and it was resolved to repair to Coxon's Hole, at the east end of the island of Cuba, where they could remain in perfect security, as the entrance was so narrow that one ship could keep out a hundred. They, however, had no small difficulty in cleaning their vessel, as there was no carpenter among them.
"Oh, I'm so sorry, I am indeed. You must believe me, Mr. Coxon. If I had foreseen this I I would have guarded against it. But now indeed, I'm so sorry." Lady Eynesford's sorrowful sympathy failed to touch Coxon's softer feelings. "What is there to be sorry about?" he demanded, almost roughly. "Why this this unfortunate misunderstanding.
"'Quite so. "'Well, said he, 'the fact is that I have heard some really extraordinary stories about your financial ability. You remember Parker, who used to be Coxon's manager? He can never say enough about it. "Of course I was pleased to hear this. I had always been pretty sharp in the office, but I had never dreamed that I was talked about in the City in this fashion.
What if Puttock raised the Righteous on him?" "Oh, then I should stand by Medland," said the Chief Justice decisively. "And young Coxon's to be Attorney-General. He's safe enough." "A man who thinks only about himself is generally safe," remarked Sir Robert dryly; and he added, with a smile, "That's why lawyers are such a valuable class." The Chief Justice laughed, and took his revenge by asking,
I had been taking three pounds a week at Coxon's, and I had saved about seventy of them, but I soon worked my way through that and out at the other end. I was fairly at the end of my tether at last, and could hardly find the stamps to answer the advertisements or the envelopes to stick them to.
It blew very hard while they were at sea, and two barques parted company in the storm. One of them drove away to the eastward, and overtook John Coxon's company. The other was taken by the Spaniards. About the 20th or 21st of May, after several days of coasting, the ships dropped anchor on the north coast of the island of Quibo.
"But the country will take a very different view. Puttock'll rub it into all his people: they'll not vote for him. What do you say, Coxon?" "I think we shall beat him badly," said that gentleman, as he rose and went out. Captain Heseltine soon followed, and was surprised to see Coxon's figure just ahead of him as he entered the gates of Government House. "Hang the fellow!
On the Sunday before that eventful, much-discussed Monday, when the critical clause was to come before the Legislative Assembly, he and his followers had decided to convene mass-meetings throughout the country, in every constituency whose member was a waverer, or suspected of being one of "Coxon's rats," as somebody possibly Captain Heseltine had nicknamed them. This was bad, Kilshaw declared.
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