ONE: ONE:"Nonsense!" returned the stranger, "I would drink ten times as much and be nothing the worse. But hark you, Stephen Holgrave��I have come to you for shelter, and I expect you will give it."He compared his present feelings with the miserable humiliation he had endured in '65. Queer!��that election seemed almost as real and vivid to him as this one, and��he did not know why��he found himself feeling as if it were more important. His mind recaptured the details with startling clearness��the crowd in the market-place, the fight with Coalbran, the sheep's entrails that were flung about ... and suddenly, sitting there in his arm-chair, he found himself muttering: "that hemmed g?ate!"

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