| A POLITICAL Preferment, labelled with its price, was canvassing the State to find a purchaser. Brooke on this occasion abstained from boasting of his tactics to Ladislaw, who for his part was glad enough to persuade himself that he had no concern with any canvassing except the purely argumentative sort, and that he worked no meaner engine than knowledge. Palmer is always going about the country canvassing against the election; and so many people came to dine with us that I never saw before, it is quite charming |
