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"We are forever divided," said Will "I ht as well be at Rome; she

would be no farther from me" But e call our despair is often

only the painful eagerness of unfed hope There were plenty of reasons

why he should not go--public reasons why he should not quit his post at

this crisis, leaving Mr Brooke in the lurch when he needed "coaching"

for the election, and when there was so , direct and

indirect, to be carried on Will could not like to leave his own

chessht side,

even if his brain and entleht help to turn a majority To coach Mr

Brooke and keep hie himself to

vote for the actual Refor on his

independence and power of pulling up in time, was not an easy task

Mr Farebrother's prophecy of a fourth candidate "in the bag" had not

yet been fulfilled, neither the Parliamentary Candidate Society nor any

other power on the watch to secure a refor a worthy

nodus for interference while there was a second reforht be returned at his own expense; and the