Or perhaps when I am an old man, and have fought the good fight, and--holloa, there! Matthew Hales, have they made you drunk already ?" The man--he was an old workman of ours--touched his hat, and tried to walk steadily past "the master," who looked at once both stern and sad.
"I thought it would be so!--I doubt if there is a voter in all Kingswell who has not got a bribe." "It is the same everywhere," I said.

"What can one man do against it, single-handed ?" "Single-handed or not, every man ought to do what he can.

And no man knows how much he can do till he tries." So saying, he went into the large parlour of the Luxmore Arms, where the election was going on.
A very simple thing, that election! Sir Ralph Oldtower, who was sheriff, sat at a table, with his son, the grave-looking young man who had been with him in the carriage; near them were Mr.Brithwood of the Mythe, and the Earl of Luxmore.
The room was pretty well filled with farmers' labourers and the like.
We entered, making little noise; but John's head was taller than most heads present; the sheriff saw him at once, and bowed courteously.

So did young Mr.Herbert Oldtower, so did the Earl of Luxmore.

Richard Brithwood alone took no notice, but turned his back and looked another way.
It was now many years since I had seen the 'squire, Lady Caroline's husband.