And now, gentle reader, I’ve had my little say, and I’m a good deal better, thanks, and I’ll try not to talk about myself any more.
Except just to mention that in the summer of 1876 I contested East Rosherville in the Conservative interest and was successful—and owed my success to the canvassing of Barty and Leah, who had no politics of their own whatever, and would have canvassed for me just as conscientiously if I’d been a Radical, probably more so! For if Barty had permitted himself any politics at all, he would have been a red-hot Radical, I fear—and his wife would have followed suit. And so, perhaps, would I!
Part Tenth
“Je suis allé de bon matin
Cueillir la violette,
Et l’aubépine, et le jasmin,
Pour célébrer ta fête.
J’ai lié de ma propre main
Bouton de rose et romarin
Pour
