My dear sir, you will be the most important person in the town! You will turn an electicn--overthrow the hopes of a party! Don't you want to know the taste of _power_?
Won't it amuse you to think, and to remember, that in the elections of 1880 you exercised an influence beyond that of Gladstone or Beaconsfield?
It's the wish for power that excites all this uproar throughout the country.

I myself, now--do you think I am a political agent just for the money it brings me?
No, no; but because I have delight in ruling men! If I am not mistaken, you have it in you to become a leader in your way, and some day you'll remember my words." Northway opened his eyes very wide, and with a look of gratification.
"You think I'm cut out for that kind of thing ?" "Judging from what I have heard of your talk.

But not in England, you understand.

Try one of the new countries, where the popular cause goes ahead more boldly.

You're young enough yet." The listener mused, smiling in a self-conscious way that obliged Glazzard to avert his face for a moment lest he should betray contemptuous amusement.
"Shall you be there--in that town--to-morrow ?" asked the young man.
"No, I have business in quite another part.