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Phineas Redux

Chapter 4 TANKERVILLE.

Word Count: 2402    |    Released on: 30/11/2017

y met at the Lambton Arms, and there Phineas established himself, knowing well that he had before him ten days of unmitigated vexation and misery. Tankerville was a dirty, prosperous, un

roleum must not be openly declared to be objectionable, and so it was with coal at Tankerville. At Tankerville coal was much loved, and was not thought to be dirty. Mr. Ruddles was very much begrimed himself, and some of the leading Liberal electors, upon whom Phineas Finn had already called, seemed to be saturated with the product of the district. It would not, h

e by that nobleman's influence. At Loughshane things had nearly been as pleasant with him. He had almost been taught to think that nothing could be easier than getting into Parliament if only a man could live when he was there. But Loughton and Loughshane were gone, with so many other comfortable things of old days, and now he found himself relegated to a borough to which, as it seemed to him, he was sent

. Ruddles, in a tone of reproach. Mr. Ruddles had always though

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I was told,"

t there's no help for spilt milk. We must get to work now,-t

ho felt that with him, as a Roman C

?" said Mr. Molescroft, who, thou

isseminate the doctrines of his own sect. Nevertheless, his opinion was very strong. "I think we must, Mr. Molescroft," said he; "I'm sure we must. Browborough has taken up the other side. He went to church last Sunday with the Mayor and two of the Aldermen, and I'm told he said all the responses louder than anybody else. He dined with the Vicar of Trinity on Mo

r. Molescroft, who indeed preferred a

must have some check on munici

handle, and they're already beginning to use it. They don't like Roman Catholics here; but if you can manage to give it a sort of Liberal turn,-as many of your constituents used

; I unde

and. It is the necessary nature of a political party in this country to avoid, as long as it can be avoided, the consideration of any question which involves a great change. There is a consciousness on the minds of leading politicians that the pressure from behind, forcing upon them great measures, drives them almost quicker than they can go, so that it becomes a necessity with them to resist rather than to aid the pressure which will certainly be at last effective by its own strength. The best carriage horses are those which can most steadily hold back against the c

ndowments. Of course I think they are bad, and of course I think that they must go. But I have never cared for the matter, and would have been very willing to leave it among those things which will arrange themselves. But I have no choice here.

every elector whom he canvassed, the great Shibboleth which he had now adopted-"The prosperity of England depends on the Church of her people." He was not an orator. Indeed, it might be hard to find a man, who had for years been conversant with public life, less able to string a few words together for immediate use. Nor could he learn half-a-dozen sentences by rote. But he could stand up with unabashed brow and repeat with enduring audacity the s

days that had followed, the state of society had required that spiritual teaching should be supplied from funds fixed and devoted to the purpose. The increasing intelligence and population of the country made this no longer desirable,-or, if desirable, no longer possible. Could these endowments be increased to meet the needs of the increasing millions? Was it not the fact that even among members of the Church of England they were altogether inefficient to supply the wants of our great towns? Did the people of Tankerville believe that the clergymen

n who could talk so well. Mr. Browborough without ceasing repeated his well-worn assurance, and it was received with the loudest exclamations of delight by his own party. The clergymen of the town and neighbourhood crowded round him and pursued him, and almost seemed to believe in him. They were at any rate fighting their

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ing they could do without it. They

I, Mr. R

couple of dozen of men out of the Fallgate would

d can be done by talking to the men at the Fal

ne all that," s

ways given in his favour, and those at the Liberal room in favour of Phineas Finn. At three o'clock Phineas was acknowledged

he Fallgate this minute," said Rudd

have to

at, I think,"

He was that same evening declared by the Mayor to have been elected sitting member for the borough, and he

gs," said Mr. Ruddles, who had been quite won by the

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1 Chapter 1 TEMPTATION.2 Chapter 2 HARRINGTON HALL.3 Chapter 3 GERARD MAULE.4 Chapter 4 TANKERVILLE.5 Chapter 5 MR. DAUBENY'S GREAT MOVE.6 Chapter 6 PHINEAS AND HIS OLD FRIENDS.7 Chapter 7 COMING HOME FROM HUNTING.8 Chapter 8 THE ADDRESS.9 Chapter 9 THE DEBATE.10 Chapter 10 THE DESERTED HUSBAND.11 Chapter 11 THE TRUANT WIFE.12 Chapter 12 K NIGSTEIN.13 Chapter 13 I HAVE GOT THE SEAT. 14 Chapter 14 TRUMPETON WOOD.15 Chapter 15 HOW WELL YOU KNEW! 16 Chapter 16 COPPERHOUSE CROSS AND BROUGHTON SPINNIES.17 Chapter 17 MADAME GOESLER'S STORY.18 Chapter 18 SPOONER OF SPOON HALL.19 Chapter 19 SOMETHING OUT OF THE WAY.20 Chapter 20 PHINEAS AGAIN IN LONDON.21 Chapter 21 MR. MAULE, SENIOR.22 Chapter 22 PURITY OF MORALS, FINN. 23 Chapter 23 MACPHERSON'S HOTEL.24 Chapter 24 MADAME GOESLER IS SENT FOR.25 Chapter 25 I WOULD DO IT NOW. 26 Chapter 26 THE DUKE'S WILL.27 Chapter 27 AN EDITOR'S WRATH.28 Chapter 28 THE FIRST THUNDERBOLT.29 Chapter 29 THE SPOONER CORRESPONDENCE.30 Chapter 30 REGRETS.31 Chapter 31 THE DUKE AND DUCHESS IN TOWN.32 Chapter 32 THE WORLD BECOMES COLD.33 Chapter 33 THE TWO GLADIATORS.34 Chapter 34 THE UNIVERSE.35 Chapter 35 POLITICAL VENOM.36 Chapter 36 SEVENTY-TWO.37 Chapter 37 THE CONSPIRACY.38 Chapter 38 ONCE AGAIN IN PORTMAN SQUARE.39 Chapter 39 CAGLIOSTRO.40 Chapter 40 THE PRIME MINISTER IS HARD PRESSED.41 Chapter 41 I HOPE I'M NOT DISTRUSTED. 42 Chapter 42 BOULOGNE.43 Chapter 43 THE SECOND THUNDERBOLT.44 Chapter 44 THE BROWBOROUGH TRIAL.45 Chapter 45 SOME PASSAGES IN THE LIFE OF MR. EMILIUS.46 Chapter 46 THE QUARREL.47 Chapter 47 WHAT CAME OF THE QUARREL.48 Chapter 48 MR. MAULE'S ATTEMPT.49 Chapter 49 SHOWING WHAT MRS. BUNCE SAID TO THE POLICEMAN.50 Chapter 50 WHAT THE LORDS AND COMMONS SAID51 Chapter 51 YOU THINK IT SHAMEFUL. 52 Chapter 52 MR. KENNEDY'S WILL.53 Chapter 53 NONE BUT THE BRAVE DESERVE THE FAIR.54 Chapter 54 THE DUCHESS TAKES COUNSEL.55 Chapter 55 PHINEAS IN PRISON.56 Chapter 56 THE MEAGER FAMILY.57 Chapter 57 THE BEGINNING OF THE SEARCH58 Chapter 58 THE TWO DUKES.59 Chapter 59 MRS. BONTEEN.60 Chapter 60 TWO DAYS BEFORE THE TRIAL.61 Chapter 61 THE BEGINNING OF THE TRIAL.62 Chapter 62 LORD FAWN'S EVIDENCE.63 Chapter 63 MR. CHAFFANBRASS FOR THE DEFENCE.64 Chapter 64 CONFUSION IN THE COURT.65 Chapter 65 I HATE HER! 66 Chapter 66 THE FOREIGN BLUDGEON.67 Chapter 67 THE VERDICT.68 Chapter 68 PHINEAS AFTER THE TRIAL.69 Chapter 69 THE DUKE'S FIRST COUSIN.70 Chapter 70 I WILL NOT GO TO LOUGHLINTER. 71 Chapter 71 PHINEAS FINN IS RE-ELECTED.72 Chapter 72 THE END OF THE STORY OF73 Chapter 73 PHINEAS FINN RETURNS TO HIS DUTIES.74 Chapter 74 AT MATCHING.75 Chapter 75 THE TRUMPETON FEUD IS SETTLED.76 Chapter 76 MADAME GOESLER'S LEGACY.77 Chapter 77 PHINEAS FINN'S SUCCESS.78 Chapter 78 THE LAST VISIT TO SAULSBY.79 Chapter 79 AT LAST-AT LAST.80 Chapter 80 CONCLUSION.