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Mawmsey
went
up
and
boasted
to
his
wife
that
he
had
been
rather
too
many
for
Brooke
of
Tipton
,
and
that
he
didn
’
t
mind
so
much
now
about
going
to
the
poll
.
Mr
.
Brooke
on
this
occasion
abstained
from
boasting
of
his
tactics
to
Ladislaw
,
who
for
his
part
was
glad
enough
to
persuade
himself
that
he
had
no
concern
with
any
canvassing
except
the
purely
argumentative
sort
,
and
that
he
worked
no
meaner
engine
than
knowledge
.
Mr
.
Brooke
,
necessarily
,
had
his
agents
,
who
understood
the
nature
of
the
Middlemarch
voter
and
the
means
of
enlisting
his
ignorance
on
the
side
of
the
Bill
—
which
were
remarkably
similar
to
the
means
of
enlisting
it
on
the
side
against
the
Bill
.
Will
stopped
his
ears
.
Occasionally
Parliament
,
like
the
rest
of
our
lives
,
even
to
our
eating
and
apparel
,
could
hardly
go
on
if
our
imaginations
were
too
active
about
processes
.
There
were
plenty
of
dirty
-
handed
men
in
the
world
to
do
dirty
business
;
and
Will
protested
to
himself
that
his
share
in
bringing
Mr
.
Brooke
through
would
be
quite
innocent
.
But
whether
he
should
succeed
in
that
mode
of
contributing
to
the
majority
on
the
right
side
was
very
doubtful
to
him
.
He
had
written
out
various
speeches
and
memoranda
for
speeches
,
but
he
had
begun
to
perceive
that
Mr
.
Brooke
’
s
mind
,
if
it
had
the
burthen
of
remembering
any
train
of
thought
,
would
let
it
drop
,
run
away
in
search
of
it
,
and
not
easily
come
back
again
.
To
collect
documents
is
one
mode
of
serving
your
country
,
and
to
remember
the
contents
of
a
document
is
another
.
No
!
the
only
way
in
which
Mr
.
Brooke
could
be
coerced
into
thinking
of
the
right
arguments
at
the
right
time
was
to
be
well
plied
with
them
till
they
took
up
all
the
room
in
his
brain
.
But
here
there
was
the
difficulty
of
finding
room
,
so
many
things
having
been
taken
in
beforehand
.
Mr
.
Brooke
himself
observed
that
his
ideas
stood
rather
in
his
way
when
he
was
speaking
.
However
,
Ladislaw
’
s
coaching
was
forthwith
to
be
put
to
the
test
,
for
before
the
day
of
nomination
Mr
.
Brooke
was
to
explain
himself
to
the
worthy
electors
of
Middlemarch
from
the
balcony
of
the
White
Hart
,
which
looked
out
advantageously
at
an
angle
of
the
market
-
place
,
commanding
a
large
area
in
front
and
two
converging
streets
.
It
was
a
fine
May
morning
,
and
everything
seemed
hopeful
:
there
was
some
prospect
of
an
understanding
between
Bagster
’
s
committee
and
Brooke
’
s
,
to
which
Mr
.
Bulstrode
,
Mr
.
Standish
as
a
Liberal
lawyer
,
and
such
manufacturers
as
Mr
.
Plymdale
and
Mr
.
Vincy
,
gave
a
solidity
which
almost
counterbalanced
Mr
.
Hawley
and
his
associates
who
sat
for
Pinkerton
at
the
Green
Dragon
.
Mr
.
Brooke
,
conscious
of
having
weakened
the
blasts
of
the
"
Trumpet
"
against
him
,
by
his
reforms
as
a
landlord
in
the
last
half
year
,
and
hearing
himself
cheered
a
little
as
he
drove
into
the
town
,
felt
his
heart
tolerably
light
under
his
buff
-
colored
waistcoat
.
But
with
regard
to
critical
occasions
,
it
often
happens
that
all
moments
seem
comfortably
remote
until
the
last
.
"
This
looks
well
,
eh
?
"
said
Mr
.
Brooke
as
the
crowd
gathered
.
"
I
shall
have
a
good
audience
,
at
any
rate
.
I
like
this
,
now
—
this
kind
of
public
made
up
of
one
’
s
own
neighbors
,
you
know
.
"
The
weavers
and
tanners
of
Middlemarch
,
unlike
Mr
.
Mawmsey
,
had
never
thought
of
Mr
.
Brooke
as
a
neighbor
,
and
were
not
more
attached
to
him
than
if
he
had
been
sent
in
a
box
from
London
.
But
they
listened
without
much
disturbance
to
the
speakers
who
introduced
the
candidate
,
one
of
them
—
a
political
personage
from
Brassing
,
who
came
to
tell
Middlemarch
its
duty
—
spoke
so
fully
,
that
it
was
alarming
to
think
what
the
candidate
could
find
to
say
after
him
.
Meanwhile
the
crowd
became
denser
,
and
as
the
political
personage
neared
the
end
of
his
speech
,
Mr
.
Brooke
felt
a
remarkable
change
in
his
sensations
while
he
still
handled
his
eye
-
glass
,
trifled
with
documents
before
him
,
and
exchanged
remarks
with
his
committee
,
as
a
man
to
whom
the
moment
of
summons
was
indifferent
.
"
I
’
ll
take
another
glass
of
sherry
,
Ladislaw
,
"
he
said
,
with
an
easy
air
,
to
Will
,
who
was
close
behind
him
,
and
presently
handed
him
the
supposed
fortifier
.
It
was
ill
-
chosen
;
for
Mr
.
Brooke
was
an
abstemious
man
,
and
to
drink
a
second
glass
of
sherry
quickly
at
no
great
interval
from
the
first
was
a
surprise
to
his
system
which
tended
to
scatter
his
energies
instead
of
collecting
them
Pray
pity
him
:
so
many
English
gentlemen
make
themselves
miserable
by
speechifying
on
entirely
private
grounds
!
whereas
Mr
.
Brooke
wished
to
serve
his
country
by
standing
for
Parliament
—
which
,
indeed
,
may
also
be
done
on
private
grounds
,
but
being
once
undertaken
does
absolutely
demand
some
speechifying
.
