id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt eliot-felix-1866 eliot eliot-felix-1866 1866 .txt text/plain 182646 7618 73 For if the mixed political conditions of Treby Magna had not been acted on by the passing of the Reform Bill, Mr. Harold Transome would not have presented himself as a candidate for North Loamshire, Treby would not have been a polling-place, Mr. Matthew Jermyn would not have been on affable terms with a Dissenting preacher and his flock, and the venerable town would not have been placarded with handbills, more or less complimentary and retrospective--conditions in this case essential to the where, and the what, without which, as the learned know, there can be no event whatever. On this second of September, when Mr. Harold Transome had had his first interview with Jermyn, and when the attorney went back to his office with new views of canvassing in his mind, Mrs. Holt had put on her bonnet as early as nine o'clock in the morning, and had gone to see the Reverend Rufus Lyon, minister of the Independent Chapel usually spoken of as Malthouse Yard. cache/eliot-felix-1866.txt txt/eliot-felix-1866.txt