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"Look here! all this is about a landlord not a hundred miles from

Middlemarch, who receives his own rents They say he is the ressive ht them

that word in the 'Pioneer'"

"Oh, that is Keck--an illiterate fellow, you know Retrogressive, now!

Come, that's capital He thinks it means destructive: they want to

make me out a destructive, you know," said Mr Brooke, with that

cheerfulness which is usually sustained by an adversary's ignorance

"I think he knows theof the word Here is a sharp stroke or

two If we had to describe a ressive in the most evil

sense of the word--we should say, he is one ould dub himself a

reformer of our constitution, while every interest for which he is

i to decay: a philanthropist who cannot

bear one rogue to be hanged, but does nothalf-starved: a man who shrieks at corruption, and keeps his

farhs, and does

not ate: a man very

open-hearted to Leeds and Manchester, no doubt; he would give any