PASTORAL AND TRAGEDY The news of the election, brought to Glenavelin by a couple of ragged runners, had a different result from that forecast by Lewis.

Alice heard it with a heart unquickened; and when, an hour after, the flushed, triumphant Mr.Stocks arrived in person to claim the meed of success, he was greeted with a painful carelessness.

Lady Manorwater had been loud in her laments for her nephew, but to Mr.Stocks she gave the honest praise which a warm-hearted woman cannot withhold from the fighter.
"Our principles have won," she cried.

"Now who will call the place a Tory stronghold?
Oh, Mr.Stocks, you have done wonderfully, and I am very glad.

I'm not a bit sorry for Lewis, for he well deserved his beating." But with Alice there could be neither pleasure nor its simulation.