Our dear friend Albert Stocks has been nursing the seat, and the Manorwaters and scores of Lewie's friends will help him.

That young man has a knack of confining his affections to members of the opposite party." "What was Merkland's majority?
Two-fifty or something like that ?" "There or about.

But he was an old and well-liked country laird, whereas Lewie is a very young gentleman with nothing to his credit except an Oxford reputation and a book of travels, neither of which will appeal to the Gledsmuir weavers." "But he is popular ?" "Where he is known--adored.

But his name does not carry confidence to those who do not know the man, for his family were weak-kneed gentry." "Yes, I knew his father.

Able, but crotchety and impossible! Tommy, this young man must get the seat, for we cannot afford to throw away a single chance.