Even his political enemies took it kindly when he "got in" for Mayor, and offered him amused congratulations.

He made a personal claim on their cordiality, which was not the least of his political resources.

Nature had fitted him to public uses; the impression overflowed the ranks of his own supporters and softened asperity among his opponents.

Illustration lies, at this moment close to us.

They had not been in the same room a quarter of an hour before he was in deep and affectionate converse with Lorne Murchison, whose party we know, and whose political weight was increasing, as this influence often does, with a rapidity out of proportion with his professional and general significance.
"It's a pity now," said Mr Winter, with genial interest, "you can't get that Ormiston defence into your own hands.