It had sounded very plausible through the claret and the brandy and the smoke of Ben Braithwaite's excellent cigars. Less so the next morning when, his stomach seriously disordered and his head aching, John-William had started to wonder why a man like Goldsborough who was'' gentry'' through and through despite his odd goings-on at the Fleece, should be making revolutionary suggestions as to how the'' squires ' government might be brought down.
John-William had a chance of winning
Not that John-William was particularly opposed to revolution if he thought he had a chance of winning.
It had sounded very plausible through the claret and the brandy and the smoke of Ben Braithwaite's excellent cigars. Less so the next morning when, his stomach seriously disordered and his head aching, John-William had started to wonder why a man like Goldsborough who was'' gentry'' through and through despite his odd goings-on at the Fleece, should be making revolutionary suggestions as to how the'' squires ' government might be brought down.</s>Not that John-William was particularly opposed to revolution if he thought he had a chance of winning.</s>John-William had a chance of winning