The Member for Paris : a Tale of the Second Empire 2
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Drydust, who had brought a 244 THE MEMBER FOR PARIS. youthful British peer with him, the Viscount Margate, and was describing to his lordship the mechanism of universal suffrage both amongst that and other peoples. A shout arose as Horace darkened the doorway, and fifty voices were raised to announce to him the results of the first four hours' polling, as gathered approximately from the ticket-distributors at the different sections : Gerold 2,300 Bourbatruelle .... 1,200 Albi 450 There might no...t be much in these figures, for a large number of electors came with their voting tickets in their pockets and did not accept those proffered at the doors ; still, they sent a flush to the face of the triumphing candidate. Mr. Drydust declared aloud that they must be taken as con- clusive, the numerous elections he had seen having invariably been decided by the results of the first four hours' polling. M. Bourbatruelle was the official candidate. It was not very easy to elect a personage suited VOX POPULI.
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