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Horlock somewhat resented his visitor's tone. "Surely my statement was sufficiently explicit?" he said, a little stiffly. "The peerage concerning which at first, I admit, I saw difficulties, is yours. You can, without doubt, be of great service to us in the Upper House and " "But I'd sooner turn shopkeeper!" Tallente interrupted.
He ought to have found you a perfectly safe seat, and of course he will have to do it." He shook his head. "I am not so sure. Horlock resents my defeat almost as though it were a personal matter. Besides, it is an age of young men, Lady Jane." "Young men!" she scoffed. "But you are young." "Am I?" he answered, a little sadly. "I am not feeling it just now.
Horlock, and passed on to the General, who, at the corner of the Southdown Road where the gossipers met, was discussing a local candidature. "So you are off to paint. You must come and see the model my wife has done of a horse I once had. I mustn't say much about him, though it is a sore subject. After winning over a thousand with him I lost it all, and five hundred with it.
The Whigs hate me like poison, hate me even worse than Horlock. If I were in Parliament, I should not know which Party to support. I think I shall devote my time to roses." "And between September and May?" "I shall hibernate and think about them." "Of course," she said, with the air of one humoring a child, "you are not in earnest.
Horlock spoke to the grocers, and the owners of the baths declared they had just heard from their servant that the young man was not dead, but mortally wounded. There was, therefore, no doubt that Dr Dickinson was going to Mrs.
"It seems to me that this is a little disheartening," he said. "It is exactly what one might have expected from Horlock or even Lethbridge. Miller, who is nearer to the proletariat than any of us, would have us believe that the people who should be the bulwark of the State are not fit for their position."
You did not sympathise with me in my defeat at Hellesfield because you underrated, as you always have underrated, the vastly growing strength and dangerous popularity of the party into whose hands the government of this country will shortly pass." Mr. Horlock frowned portentously. This was not at all the way in which he should have been addressed by an unsuccessful follower.
The Right Honourable John Augustus Horlock, Prime Minister of England through a most amazing fluke, received Tallente, a few days later, with the air of one desiring to show as much graciousness as possible to a discomfited follower. He extended two fingers and indicated an uncomfortable chair. "Well, well, Tallente," he said, "sorry I wasn't in town when you passed through from the north.
He'll never see beyond his trades union. You'll never found a great national party with his aid." His companion smiled. "Then we shall fail and you will continue to be Prime Minister." Mrs. Van Fosdyke came back to them, on the arm of a foreign diplomat. She leaned over to Horlock and whispered: "Lethbridge has heard that you two are here together and he is on your track. Better separate."
"I am keeping the Democrats from a present triumph, but if through me they shake themselves free from what I call the little Labourites, I think things will pan out better for them in the long run." "And in the meantime," Horlock went on, lighting a cigar and passing his case to Tallente, "I must give you the credit of playing a magnificent lone hand.
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