There are half-a-dozen obstructors, all faddists, but Henslow, with a real case behind him, is sitting tight.
'Pon my word, I'm not sure that I like the fellow." "I ventured to write to him the other evening," Brooks said, "and I have sent him all the statistics we promised, he seems to have regarded my letter as an impertinence, though, for he has never answered it." "You mark my words," Mr.Bullsom said, doubling the paper up and bringing it down viciously upon his knee, "Henslow will never sit again for Medchester.

There was none too mulch push about him last session, but he smoothed us all over somehow.

He'll not do it again.

I'm losing faith in the man, Brooks." Brooks was genuinely disturbed.

His own suspicions had been gathering strength during the last few weeks.