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"If he gets in; but he will have a fight for it Our dear friend Albert Stocks has been nursing the seat, and the Manorwaters and scores of Lewie's friends will help hi his affections to members of the opposite party"

"What was Merkland'slike that?"

"There or about But he was an old and well-liked country laird, whereas Lewie is a very young gentle to his credit except an Oxford reputation and a book of travels, neither of which will appeal to the Gledsmuir weavers"

"But he is popular?"

"Where he is known--adored But his name does not carry confidence to those who do not know the entry"

"Yes, I knew his father Able, but crotchety and iet the seat, for we cannot afford to throay a single chance You say he knows the place," and he jerked his head to indicate that East to which his thoughts were ever turning "Some time in the next two years there will be the devil's own in,better for you than the support of some man in the Commons who knows that Bardur is not quite so pastoral as Hampshire He , and at the worst he can be sent out"

Wratislahistled long and low "I think not," he said "He is too good to throay But hein the world for o up to Ettorick tomorrow and talk to him He will do as I tell hiht Besides, I want to see Stocks again That ar!" said the Minister "Oh, go by all means and enjoy yourself, while I swelter here for another three weeks over raood luck, and bring the young man to a sense of his own value"