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...ass to which the Cinq-Cygnes belong. But there’s the bell announc- ing the electors, and I disappear —regretting much I can’t hear what you are all go... ...x- pected, no doubt, to transfer to his son, then thirty years of age, his electoral succession, in order to make him some day eligible for the peerag... ... Marion and her friends organized for the morrow a meeting of “independent electors” in the interests of Simon Giguet, the colonel’s son. The morrow h... ...e first sound of the bell announc- ing the arrival of the most influential electors echoed in the heart of the ambitious aspirant and filled it with v... ...o wel- come graciously an habitue of his aunt’s salon and an influ- ential elector, in whom, nevertheless, he saw an enemy. “Ah!” he thought to himsel... ...y disappointment was complete—there was no name! Monsieur my Son, said my anonymous father,— I do not regret that by your passionate insistence on kn...

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...incial life, prowling like a starving tiger round these trades- men, these electors, to secure their votes; if, after wran- gling in these squalid cas... ... it would be. But he neglected no means of success, reading up the list of electors of Besancon, and find- ing out their interests, their characters, ... ...ances, the father of the family is above bribery , it would be hard if the electors did not esteem him. Electors wax enthu- siastic over a beau ideal ... ...e period that elapses be- tween the issuing of the writs for convening the electoral bod- ies, and the day fixed for their meetings, is an interval du... ...g, of fervor, interest, and fascina- tion. This whirlwind carried away the electors. Never had any man had such a triumph. But, unfortunately, speech,... ...rt, come to the Opera ball on T uesday with a marigold in your hand.” This anonymous note, sent by Rosalie to the Duchess, brought the unhappy Italian...

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...consent of your fellow citizens. In a word, a sufficiently large number of electors in your arrondissement have cast their eyes upon you, and wish to ... ...” (Here he bowed respect- fully to Minard.) “Yes, Monsieur Thuillier, many electors think of giving you their votes in that portion of the arrondissem... .... Five days later, in the month of April, the ordinance which convoked the electors to appoint a member of the municipal council on the 20th of the sa... ...efactor who sent money from time to time to that rascal? Suppose I send an anonymous letter to the old fellow, warning him of the danger the barris- t... ... of the bar; and the highest dignitary of the order, after stating that an anonymous denunciation ought always to be received with great distrust, tol... ... my poor fellow, that in going to live in the other quarter you have lost, electorally speaking, an immense amount of ground. You are no longer the ma... ...alone, “how you manage bores. But take care; among the number there may be electors. You did right to tell Phellion you would send him a copy of the p...

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...tizen; and, when he happened to be a candidate himself, he can- vassed the electors with the same earnestness of personal ap- plication, as any other ... ...m 80 The Cæsars the unseasonable hour, and scarcely doubting that by some anonymous delator they have been implicated as parties to a conspiracy, the... ...ration of honor, (as if a modern prince should create a person Arch- Grand-Elector, with no objects assigned to his electing fac- ulty,) or else, if i...

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...r of taxes, exercised an enormous influence over the coun- 130 Ursula try electors. Five of the post master’s farmers were electors. Dionis represent... ...n fate.” A few weeks later the post poured into two hearts the poi- son of anonymous letters,—one addressed to Madame de Portenduere, the other to Urs... ... the windows of this room,” she continued, tell- ing her old friend of the anonymous letters, but declaring that she would not allow any inquiries to ... ...inquiries to be made as to who her unknown lover might be. “Why! it was an anonymous letter that first took Madame de Portenduere to Rouvre,” cried th... ... Savinien did not go to Montargis. He received in the course of the day an anonymous letter containing a prophecy:— “You will never marry Ursula. If y... ...those whom he met commiserated him and asked him who was the author of the anonymous placard. Fortu- nately for him, everybody made allowance for his ...

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...m. In the first place he was named simply Ferdinand, without surname. This anonymous condition seemed to him an im- mense advantage at the time when N... ...ay, Gendrin insisted on holding the empty appartement. Molineux re- ceived anonymous letters, no doubt from Gendrin, which threatened him with assassi... ...isional assignees, who are often, as we have said, the final ones. In this electoral assembly all creditors have the right to vote, whether the 238 R... ...which are found pretended creditors in- troduced by the bankrupt,—the only electors who never fail to come to the meeting,—proposes the whole body of ... ... of his certificate. The “gay and illegitimate credi- tors” are like false electors admitted into the electoral col- lege. What chance has the “seriou...

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...ry,” and dated “8th August, 1838.”* The Club grew; was at first called the Anonymous Club; then, after some months of success, in compliment to the fo... ...f Madeira. One of the liveliest recollections I have, con- nected with the Anonymous Club, is that of once escort- ing Sterling, after a certain meeti... ...s: these are the candidates. There are, of course, fierce rival attorneys; electors of all creeds and complexions to be canvassed: a poor stupid Borou... ...ke that of an Archimagus Cagliostro, or Kaiser Joseph Incognito, which his anonymous known-unknown thunderings in the Times necessitated in him; and m...

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...Naseby on the subject, but if he had been appealed to by the whole body of electors, his letter would be none the less ungener- ous and unjust to Mr. ... ... Scotch say)— here He mauna think to domineer. ‘Liberalism,’ continued the anonymous journalist, ‘is of too free and sound a growth,’ etc. Richard Nas...

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...-law of Gaubertin, and now a governor of the Bank of France. The number of electors which this rich valley sent to the electoral college was sufficien... ...triumvirate —Rigou, Soudry, and Gaubertin—wielded in election periods over electors whose fortunes depended on their good-will. Hate, intelligence, an... ...ocument before his eyes; the abbe will be able to do so after receiving an anonymous letter which will inform him of your double-dealing. You would th... ...Are you sure? If we could only get proof of it, what a fine subject for an anonymous letter to the general!” “The general!” cried Madame Vermut, “he w...

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...ge; then I might find the means of amusing myself this evening. My ticket, anonymously sent, is no doubt a bit of mischief planned by a rival and havi... ...etails. But—man is born to be rained upon! “Next day the Baron received an anonymous letter some- thing to this effect: ‘Monsieur de Nucingen is dying... ...price, I could make no further objections. “But last evening I received an anonymous letter—you know how much that is worth—in which I am informed tha... ..., if you end by giving him your daughter,” re- plied the Minister. “If the anonymous letter tells the truth, what of that? You can send Clotilde to tr... ...r. “But where the devil can that young fellow have found the money? Is the anonymous writer accurate? Can it be the earn- ings of some handsome baggag... ...ds. Well informed too, caring greatly for his position as a citizen and an elector, and an enthusiastic florist, this tall, brawny man with his low vo...

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...e delicate affairs of business, and issues an address to the inde- pendent electors of Pocket-Breaches, announcing that he is coming among them for th... ...exam’s hands, with a general flavour on it of having been favoured by some anonymous messenger in a dark cloak and slouched hat, and was by her forwar...

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...something of the mystical power of the Oracles,—the power which belongs to anonymous writing. Had he dis- posed of my apparent rival, and exalted me t... ...rit. In the midst of these tortures an arrow struck me, in the shape of an anonymous letter, containing one brief line: ‘The princess is in need of he... ...ippenden close upon the hour my father had named, bringing to the startled electors the first news of their member’s death. During the heat of the can... ...bright as Apollo, and quite the sun of the place, dazzling the independent electors and their wives, and even me some- what; amazing me, certainly. De... ...and tried to curb him. ‘Mr. Dettermain, my dear sir, I apprehend it is the electoral maxim to woo the widowed borough with the tear in its eye, and I ... ...ian to descend upon such a place as Chippenden worried my father more than electoral anxieties. Jorian wrote, ‘My best wishes to you. Be careful of yo...

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...n or divine—always excepting the thrice mysterious Taboo. The ‘independent electors’ of the valley were not to be brow-beaten by chiefs, priests, idol... ... to come out from his retreat, and go a man-hunting every dark night. Some anonymous Paul Pry, too, coming down the mountain, once got a peep at his d...

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...ifying sentiments, “that you do mean what a pity. It is disgraceful to the electors. But as you, though in advertently and without intending so unrea... ...“Yes, yes,” says Mr. Bucket. “But I could have made the money without this anonymous information.” Having put the letters in his book of fate and gird...

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...ur Cooks, 113 Herman Melville your Krusensterns; but I say that scores of anonymous Cap- tains have sailed out of Nantucket, that were as great, and ... ...k- fort, where the German Emperor profoundly dines with the seven Imperial Electors, so these cabin meals were somehow solemn meals, eaten in awful si... ...however much for the bower; and so, being a great traveller, he leaves his anonymous babies all over the world; every baby an exotic. In good time, ne...

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...oring Expeditions, your Cooks, your Krusensterns; but I say that scores of anonymous Captains have sailed out of Nantucket, that were as Chapter 24 T... ...ankfort, where the German Emperor profoundly dines with the seven Imperial Electors, so these cabin meals were somehow solemn meals, eaten in awful si... ...however much for the bower; and so, being a great traveller, he leaves his anonymous babies all over the world; every baby an exotic. In good time, ne...

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...e delicate affairs of business, and issues an address to the inde- pendent electors of Pocket-Breaches, announcing that he is coming among them for th... ...exam’s hands, with a general flavour on it of having been favoured by some anonymous messenger in a dark cloak and slouched hat, and was by her forwar... ...04 Our Mutual Friend ies as legislator deputed to the Universe by the pure electors of Pocket-Breaches, it shall come to pass next week that Ve- neeri...

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...s. Upon which law writer there was an inquest, and which law writer was an anonymous charac ter, his name being unknown. But, your ladyship, I have d... ...ifying sentiments, “that you do mean what a pity. It is disgraceful to the electors. But as you, though in advertently and without intending so unrea... ...“Yes, yes,” says Mr. Bucket. “But I could have made the money without this anonymous information.” Having put the letters in his book of fate and gird...

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...here, with confusion enough, are Primary Assemblies forming. To elect your Electors; such is the form prescribed: then to draw up your ‘Writ of Plain... ...cts; each of which (assembled in some church, or the like) is choosing two Electors. Official deputations pass from District to District, for all is i... ...urer of the Rue St. Antoine;’ he, commonly so punctual, is absent from the Electoral Committee;—and even will never reappear there. In those ‘immense ... ... that shall be ‘tolerably known in the Revolution.’ He is President of the electoral Cordeliers District at Paris, or about to be it; and shall open h... ...al;—and to continue it under a new name. In which act of valour, the Paris Electors, still busy redacting their Cahier, could not but support him, by ... ...ility, and bound himself to nothing. Deputations go to the Hotel-de-Ville; anonymous Letters to Aristocrats in the National Assembly, threatening that...

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...re, with confusion enough, are Primary Assem- blies forming. To elect your Electors; such is the form prescribed: then to draw up your ‘Writ of Plaint... ...cts; each of which (assembled in some church, or the like) is choosing two Electors. Official deputations pass from District to Dis- trict, for all is... ...er of the Rue St. Antoine;’ he, com- monly so punctual, is absent from the Electoral Committee;— and even will never reappear there. In those ‘immense... ... that shall be ‘tolerably known in the Revolution.’ He is President of the electoral Cordeliers District at Paris, or about to be it; and shall open h... ... Doubtless, the ‘powers must be verified;’— doubtless, the Commission, the electoral Documents of your Deputy must be inspected by his brother Deputie... ...ility, and bound himself to nothing. Deputations go to the Hotel-de-Ville; anonymous Letters to Aristocrats in the National Assembly, threatening that...

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...r if he knew it to be mine, I contrived to disguise my hand, and, writing an anonymous paper, I put it in at night under the door of the printing hou... ...ur debates possess’d me so fully of the subject, that I wrote and printed an anonymous pamphlet on it, entitled “The Nature and Necessity of a Paper C... ...this trust was repeated every year for ten years, without my ever asking any elector for his vote, or signifying, either directly or indirectly, any d... ...ites ballads and peddles them, in printed form, in the streets; contributes, anonymously, to the “New England Courant,” and temporarily edits that pap... ...e. 1729 Becomes proprietor and editor of the “Pennsylvania Gazette”; prints, anonymously, “Nature and Necessity of a Paper Currency”; opens a statione...

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... of candidates, is the unforeseen and unavoidable mechanical defect of all electoral methods with large electorates. Educa- tion has nothing to do wit... ...f Political Parties. 163 H G Wells toral process; the constituency elects electors, who elect the rulers and officers, for example, and there is also... ...ut that this method is so universally recognized as superior to the common electoral method that any one who should propose to-day to take the fate of... ... privi- leges in public matters—for instance, it might qualify for certain electoral juries. And from this class the next rank might easily be drawn i... ...iticism, as a public func- tion, is discharged by private persons, usually anonymous and frequently mysterious, and it is discharged with an as- tonis...

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...om furnished with a dirt-enamelled map of the county, a bad portrait of an anonymous horse in a stable, His Majesty George the Fourth with legs and cr... ... confusion of a Tory Ministry passing Liberal measures, of Tory nobles and electors being anxious to return Liberals rather than friends of the recrea... ...t with Ladislaw at that time, when a dissolution might happen any day, and electors were to be convinced of the course by which the interests of the c... ...fore the day of nomination Mr. Brooke was to explain himself to the worthy electors of Middlemarch from the balcony of the White Hart, which looked ou... ...d hair, and neutral physiognomy. He began with some confidence. “Gentlemen—Electors of Middlemarch!” This was so much the right thing that a little pa...

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...om furnished with a dirt enamelled map of the county, a bad portrait of an anonymous horse in a stable, His Majesty George the Fourth with legs and cr... ... confusion of a Tory Ministry passing Liberal measures, of Tory nobles and electors being anxious to return Liberals rather than friends of the recrea... ...t with Ladislaw at that time, when a dissolution might happen any day, and electors were to be convinced of the course by which the interests of the c... ...fore the day of nomination Mr. Brooke was to explain himself to the worthy electors of Middlemarch from the balcony of the White Hart, which looked ou... ...nd hair, and neutral physiognomy. He began with some confidence. “Gentlemen—Electors of Middlemarch!” This was so much the right thing that a little pa...

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...upon no colorable ground whatever, unless the magistrate had received some anonymous information, which, however, he never al- leged. One comfort ther... ...he elegant creature whom he had lost. She was a daughter of the Bavar- ian Elector; ill-tempered by her own confession, self-willed, and a plain speak... ...re, Famine, and Slaughter. As this little viperous jeu-d’esprit (published anonymously) subsequently became the subject of a celebrated after-dinner d...