He would move from one to the other without a pang.

For neither's glory would he shed a drop of his blood.

Only at election times does it occur to him that he is one of a special brotherhood, isolated from the rest of London; and even then he regards the constituency as a convention defining geographical limits for the momentary range of his political passions.

So that the day when an electric thrill ran through the whole of Hickney Heath was a rare one in its uninspiring annals.
The dramatic had happened, touching the most sluggish imaginations.

The Liberal candidate for Parliament, a respected Borough Councillor, a notorious Evangelical preacher, had publicly confessed himself an ex-convict.