The electors of Tankerville,
however, are responsible only to their borough, and may
do as they please with the seat in Parliament which is
at their disposal. We may, however, protest against the
employment of an unfit person in the service of his
country,--simply because he has not committed a murder.
We say so much now because rumours of an arrangement have
reached our ears, which, should it come to pass,--would
force upon us the extremely disagreeable duty of referring
very forcibly to past circumstances, which may otherwise,
perhaps, be allowed to be forgotten.
CHAPTER LXXII
The End of the Story of Mr. Emilius and Lady Eustace
The interest in the murder by no means came to an end when Phineas
Finn was acquitted. The new facts which served so thoroughly to prove
him innocent tended with almost equal weight to prove another man
guilty. And the other man was already in custody on a charge which
had subjected him to the peculiar ill-will of the British public. He,
a foreigner and a Jew, by name Yosef Mealyus,--as every one was now
very careful to call him,--had come to England, had got himself to be
ordained as a clergyman, had called himself Emilius, and had married
a rich wife with a title, although he had a former wife still living
in his own country.
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