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Kilshaw looked at his hand. "Thank God I had my glove on," he said, and got into his cab. Certainly there is no rose without a thorn. When the Governor announced to his household that he had accepted Coxon's resignation, and that it was understood that the retiring Minister would henceforward act with Sir Robert Perry, the news was variously received.
The moment he was gone, Lady Eynesford ran to her husband. "The next time you take a Governorship," she exclaimed, as she sank into a chair, "you must leave me at home." "What's the matter now?" Lady Eynesford, with much indignant comment, related the tale of Coxon's audacity. "Of course I meant him for Eleanor," she concluded. "Did you ever hear of such a thing?"
A careful computation showed that Medland was supported now by a steady majority of not more than eight: Coxon's defection could not fail to leave him in a minority; for, although Coxon was a young man, and, as yet, of no great independent weight in politics, he had acquired a factitious importance, partly from the prestige of a successful University career in England, still more from the fact that he was the only remaining member of the Ministry to whom moderate men and vested interests could look with any confidence.
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