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The leading article "condemned" and "deplored," at considerable length
and in good set terms, through two paragraphs. In the third it "could
not disguise--from itself or its readers"--that Mr. Marsham's defeat by
so large a majority had been a strong probability from the first, and
had been made a certainty by the appearance on the eve of the poll of
"the Barrington letter." "No doubt, some day, Mr. Marsham will give his
old friends and former constituents in this division the explanations in
regard to this letter--taken in connection with his own repeated
statements at meetings and in the press--which his personal honor and
their long fidelity seem to demand. Meanwhile we can only express to our
old member our best wishes both for his speedy recovery from the effects
of a cowardly and disgraceful attack, and for the restoration of a
political position which only a few months ago seemed so strong and so
full of promise."
Marsham put down the paper. He could see the whipper-snapper of an
editor writing the lines, with a wary eye both to the past and future of
the Marsham influence in the division. The self-made, shrewd little man
had been Oliver's political slave and henchman through two Parliaments;
and he had no doubt reflected that neither the Tallyn estates, nor the
Marsham wealth had been wiped out by the hostile majority of last
Saturday.
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