It would be just like him if he got himself elected member for Riversborough without telling me anything about it till it was over.

He loves surprises; and I--why I hate to be surprised." "But he is gone!" said Phebe.
"Yes, he told me he was going to London," she went on; "but if it is no election scene, what is it, Phebe?
Why are all the people gathered here in such excitement ?" "Shall I tell you plainly ?" asked Phebe, looking steadily into Felicita's dark, inscrutable eyes.
"Tell me the simple truth," she replied, somewhat haughtily; "if any human being can tell it." "Then the bank has stopped payment," answered Phebe.

"Poor Mr.Acton has been found dead in bed this morning; and Mr.Sefton is gone away, nobody knows where.

It is the May fair to-day, and all the people are coming in from the country.

There's been a run on the bank till they are forced to stop payment.