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Show M. Guizot while on a visit to Lord Aberdeen in Scotland, was talking to him in the park one day about the English system of elections, when his host stopped before a modest cottage. "This little house," he said, "recalls to me a shameful deed in my political life." "What? an act of violence?" "You shall hear. I had a tenant here, an independent fellow, who annoyed me horribly. In every election he strenuously opposed me. I made up my mind to be rid of him." "Ha! you turned him out?" "No, I reduced his rent by a guinea, and destroyed his qualification. A mean trick, and I've always been ashamed of it." |
