His _vis-a-vis_--a stout country gentleman who had been in the army and knocked about the world before coming into his estate--shrugged his shoulders.
"So I hear--he daren't show his nose as a candidate in _our_ part of the world, though of course he does us all the harm he can.

I remember a good story of his mother--she quarrelled with her husband and all her relations, his and hers, and then she took to speaking in public, accompanied by her dear boy.

On one occasion she was speaking at a market town near us, and telling the farmers that as far as she was concerned she would like to see the big properties cut up to-morrow.

The sooner her father's and husband's estates were made into small holdings stocked with public capital the better.

After it was all over, a friend of mine, who was there, was coming home in a sort of omnibus that ran between the town and a neighbouring village.