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Beauchamp’s Career

CHAPTER XI
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Of all boroughs! Grancey Lespel knows it.

He and his family were Bevisham's Whig M.P.'s before the day of Manchester.

In Bevisham an election is an arrangement made by Providence to square the accounts of the voters, and settle arrears.

They reckon up the health of their two members and the chances of an appeal to the country when they fix the rents and leases.

You have them pointed out to you in the street, with their figures attached to them like titles.


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