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`` The man has insulted my wife , and is a coward . '' About two o'clock on the afternoon of that day Mr. Lopez appeared before the Silverbridge bench of magistrates , and was there sworn to keep the peace to Mr. Fletcher for the next six months . After that he was allowed to leave the town , and was back in London , with his wife in Belgrave Mansions , to dinner that evening . On the day but one after this the ballot was taken , and at eight o'clock on the evening of that day Arthur Fletcher was declared to be duly elected . But Mr. Du Boung ran him very hard . The numbers were -- FLETCHER 315 DU BOUNG 308 Mr. Du Boung 's friends during these two last days had not hesitated to make what use they could on behalf of their own candidate of the Lopez and Fletcher quarrel . If Mr. Fletcher had insulted the other man 's wife , surely he could not be a proper member for Silverbridge .