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But whether he should succeed in that ht side was very doubtful to him He had written

out various speeches and un to

perceive that Mr Brooke's

any train of thought, would let it drop, run away in search of it, and

not easily co 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 arguht time was to be well plied

with them till they took up all the roo roo been taken in

beforehand Mr Brooke himself observed that his ideas stood rather in

his hen 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 froeously at an angle of the e area in front and two converging streets It was a

fine Maysee between Bagster's committee and Brooke's,

to which Mr Bulstrode, Mr Standish as a Liberal lawyer, and such

ave a solidity which

almost counterbalanced Mr Hawley and his associates who sat for

Pinkerton at the Green Dragon Mr Brooke, conscious of having