The Goat and Compasses
Harold Smith had been made unhappy by that rumour of a dissolution;
but the misfortune to him would be as nothing compared to the
severity with which it would fall on Mr. Sowerby. Harold Smith might
or might not lose his borough, but Mr. Sowerby would undoubtedly lose
his county; and, in losing that, he would lose everything. He felt
very certain now that the duke would not support him again, let who
would be master of Chaldicotes; and as he reflected on these things
he found it very hard to keep up his spirits. Tom Towers, it seems,
had known all about it, as he always does. The little remark which
had dropped from him at Miss Dunstable's, made, no doubt, after
mature deliberation, and with profound political motives, was the
forerunner, only by twelve h
