Of course, all this sort of thing is so much easier in the country.

Very often, in the winter nights here, I waste my time trying to think out your greater problems." "Problems," he observed, "which the good people of Hellesfield have just decided that I am not the man to solve." "An election counts for nothing," she declared.

"The merest whim will lead thousands of voters into the wrong polling booth.

Besides, nearly all the papers admit that your defeat was owing to a political intrigue.
The very men who should have supported you--who had promised to support you, in fact--went against you at the last moment.

That was entirely due to Miller, wasn't it ?" "Miller has been my political bete noir for years," he confessed.