"Mayn't one even feed a Radical ?" He winced visibly a moment, touched in his philosopher's pride.
"You remind me," he said, laughing and reddening--"and justly--that an election perverts all one's standards and besmirches all one's morals.
Then I suppose Mr.Wharton is an old friend ?" "Papa never saw him before last week," she said carelessly.

"Now he talks of asking him to stay some time, and says that, although he won't vote for him, he hopes that he will make a good fight." Raeburn's brow contracted in a puzzled frown.
"He will make an excellent fight," he said rather shortly.

"Dodgson hardly hopes to get in.

Harry Wharton is a most taking speaker, a very clever fellow, and sticks at nothing in the way of promises.

Ah, you will find him interesting, Miss Boyce! He has a co-operative farm on his Lincolnshire property.