Chippinge Borough

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Weyman Stanley John. Chippinge Borough

I. THE DISSOLUTION

II. THE SPIRIT OF THE STORM

III. TWO LETTERS

IV. TANTIVY! TANTIVY! TANTIVY!

V. ROSY-FINGERED DAWN

VI. THE PATRON OF CHIPPINGE

VII. THE WINDS OF AUTUMN

VIII. A SAD MISADVENTURE

IX. THE BILL FOR GIVING EVERYBODYEVERYTHING!

X. THE QUEEN'S SQUARE ACADEMY FORYOUNG LADIES

XI. DON GIOVANNI FLIXTON

XII. A ROTTEN BOROUGH

XIII. THE VERMUYDEN DINNER

XIV. MISS SIBSON'S MISTAKE

XV. MR. PYBUS'S OFFER

XVI. LESS THAN A HERO

XVII. THE CHIPPINGE ELECTION

XVIII. THE CHIPPINGE ELECTION (Continued)

XIX. THE FRUITS OF VICTORY

XX. A PLOT UNMASKED

XXI. A MEETING OF OLD FRIENDS

XXII. WOMEN'S HEARTS

XXIII. IN THE HOUSE

XXIV. A RIGHT AND LEFT

XXV. AT STAPYLTON

XXVI. THE SCENE IN THE HALL

XXVII. WICKED SHIFTS

XXVIII. ONCE MORE, TANTIVY!

XXIX. AUTUMN LEAVES

XXX. THE MAYOR'S RECEPTION IN QUEEN'S SQUARE

XXXI. SUNDAY IN BRISTOL

XXXII. THE AFFRAY AT THE PALACE

XXXIII. FIRE

XXXIV. HOURS OF DARKNESS

XXXV. THE MORNING OF MONDAY

XXXVI. FORGIVENESS

XXXVII. IN THE MOURNING COACH

XXXVIII. THREADS AND PATCHES

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The Court of Chancery, the preserve for nearly a quarter of a century of Eldon and Delay, was the farthest from the entrance on the right-hand side of the Hall-a situation which enabled the Chancellor to pass easily to that other seat of his labours, the Woolsack. Two steps raised the Tribunals of the Common Law above the level of the Hall. But as if to indicate that this court was not the seat of anything so common as law, but was the shrine of that more august conception, Patronage, and the altar to which countless divines of the Church of England looked with unwinking devotion, a flight of six or eight steps led up to the door.

The privacy thus secured had been much to the taste of Lord Eldon. Doubt and delay flourish best in a close and dusty atmosphere; and if ever there was a man to whom that which was was right, it was "Old Bags." Nor had Lord Lyndhurst, his immediate successor, quarrelled with an arrangement which left him at liberty to devote his time to society and his beautiful wife. But the man who now sat in the marble chair was of another kind from either of these. His worst enemy could not lay dulness to his charge; nor could he who lectured the Whitbreads on brewing, who explained their art to opticians, who vied with Talleyrand in the knowledge of French literature, who wrote eighty articles for the first twenty numbers of the "Edinburgh Review," be called a sluggard. Confident of his powers, Brougham loved to display them; and the wider the arena the better he was pleased. His first sitting had been graced by the presence of three royal dukes, a whole Cabinet, and a score of peers in full dress. Having begun thus auspiciously, he was not the man to vegetate in the gloom of a dry-as-dust court, or to be content with an audience of suitors, whom equity, blessed word, had long stripped of their votes.

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He proceeded to read in a low tone, skipping from heading to heading: "Chippinge, in the county of Wilts, has returned two members since the twenty-third of Edward III. Right of election in the Alderman and the twelve capital burgesses, who hold their places for life. Number of voters, thirteen. Patron, Sir Robert Vermuyden, Bart., of Stapylton House.

"Umph, as I thought," he continued, laying down the book. "Now what does the list say?" And, taking it in turn from his knee, he read:

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