ittle thanks if he had tried to please them by exhibiting there a
modesty becoming of his modest origin. He knew well enough that the
more he put on display the more they would think of him and of his
clients. Therefore he put on display like a garment--a garment to which
he was little used, and in which he took no manner of delight. There
was generally a little group of persons round the hotel doors at all
hours of the day waiting to see Mr. Money and his friends go out or
come in. At first Minola positively declined to go out at all, except
at night; and the recent death of her father's widow gave her a fair
excuse for remaining quietly indoors. Lucy delighted in the whole
affair, and often declared that she felt as if she had been turned into
a princess. When Mr. Heron came down he too seemed rather to enjoy it.
At least he took it all as a matter of course. The experiences of
colonial days, when the ruler of a colony, however small it may be, is
a person of majestic proportions in his own sphere, enabled him to take
Mr. Money's pomp quite seriously.

Meanwhile Mr. Augustus Sheppard had got his committee-rooms and his
displays of various kinds, and was understood to be working hard. The
election contest, so long looked for, had taken every one a little by
surprise when it showed itself so near. It was natural that Mr.
Sheppard and his friends should feel confident of the result. The
retiring representative was now an old man. He had faithfully served
out his time; he had always voted as his patrons wished him to do; he
had never made a speech in the House of Commons; he had never, indeed,
risen to his feet there at all, except once or twice to present a
petition. The delights of a Parliamentary career were, therefore, this
long time beginning to pall upon him. He had been notoriously anxious
to get out of Parliament. He had been sent into the House of Commons by
the late duke to keep the seat warm until the present duke should come
of age. But the present duke succeeded to the peerage before he came of
age, and therefore never had a chance of sitting in the House of
Commons. The man in possession was allowed to remain there through
years and years, until the present duke could be induced to return from
abroad and take some interest in the political and other affairs of
Keeton. His own son was yet too young for Parliament, and as the
sitting member found himself getting too old and begged for release,
there was nothin