An Hour of Defeat

           ThestoicCowperwood,listeningtotheblareandexcitementthatwentwiththefallcampaign,wasmuchmorepainedtolearnofAileen’sdesertionthantoknowthathehadarrayedawholesocialelementagainsthimselfinChicago.HecouldnotforgetthewonderofthosefirstdayswhenAileenwasyoung,andloveandhopehadbeenthesubstanceofherbeing.Thethoughtranthroughallhiseffortsandcogitationslikeadistantlyorchestratedundertone.Inthemain,inspiteofhisactivity,hewasanintrospectiveman,andart,drama,andthepathosofbrokenidealswerenotbeyondhim.HeharboredinnowayanygrudgeagainstAileenonlyakindofsorrowovertheinevitableconsequencesofhisownungovernabledisposition,thewilltofreedomwithinhimself.Change!Change!theinevitablepassingofthings!Whopartswithaperfectthing,evenifnomorethananunreasoninglove,withoutatouchofself-pity?

           ButtherefollowedswiftlythesixthofNovember,withitselection,noisyandirrational,andthelatterresultedinaresoundingdefeat.Outofthethirty-twoDemocraticaldermennominatedonlytenwereelected,givingtheoppositionafulltwo-thirdsmajorityincouncil,Messrs.TiernanandKerrigan,ofcourse,beingsafelyintheirplaces.WiththemcameaRepublicanmayorandallhisRepublicanassociatesontheticket,whowerenowsupposedtocarryoutthetheoriesoftherespectableandthevirtuous.Cowperwoodknewwhatitmeantandpreparedatoncetomakeoverturestotheenemy.

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