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Phineas Redux

CHAPTER XX
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The long and the short of it is that you must vote with us against Daubeny's bill.

Browborough sees it plainly enough.
He supported his chief in the teeth of all his protestations at Tankerville." "I am not Browborough." "Nor half so good a man if you desert us," said Barrington Erle, with anger.
"I say nothing about that.

He has his ideas of duty, and I have mine.
But I will go so far as this.

I have not yet made up my mind.

I shall ask advice; but you must not quarrel with me if I say that I must seek it from some one who is less distinctly a partisan than you are." "From Monk ?" "Yes;--from Mr.Monk.I do think it will be bad for the country that this measure should come from the hands of Mr.Daubeny." "Then why the d---- should you support it, and oppose your own party at the same time?
After that you can't do it.


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