Then came the shopkeepers, who might also be regarded as a stiff-necked generation, impervious to electioneering eloquence.

They would, generally, support Mr Moffat.

But there was an inferior class of voters, ten-pound freeholders, and such like, who, at this period, were somewhat given to have an opinion of their own, and over them it was supposed that Sir Roger did obtain some power by his gift of talking.
"Now, gentlemen, will you tell me this," said he, bawling at the top of his voice from off the portico which graced the door of the Dragon of Wantley, at which celebrated inn Sir Roger's committee sat:--"Who is Mr Moffat, and what has he done for us?
There have been some picture-makers about the town this week past.

The Lord knows who they are; I don't.

These clever fellows do tell you who I am, and what I've done.