I shouldn't wonder if
this made him set his teeth."
* * * * *
Lankester opened the door of the ugly yet luxurious room which had been
assigned him. He looked round it with fresh distaste, resenting its
unnecessary size and its pretentious decoration, resenting also the very
careful valeting which had evidently been bestowed on his shabby
clothes and personal appointments, as though the magnificent young
footman who looked after him had been doing his painful best with
impossible materials.
"Why, the idiots have shut the windows!"
He strode vehemently across the floor, only to find the park outside, as
he hung across the sill, even less to his liking than the room within.
Then, throwing himself into a chair, tired out with the canvassing,
speaking, and multifarious business of the preceding days, he fell to
wondering what on earth had made him--after the fatigues of his own
election--come down to help Marsham with his. There were scores of men
in the House he liked a great deal better, and requests for help had
been showered upon him.
He had, no doubt, been anxious, as a keen member of the advanced group,
that Marsham should finally commit himself to the programme of the Left
Wing, with which he had been so long coquetting.
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