Why would a politician have conceded an election before all the votes are counted

In hard times by charles dickens, the scene in which the characters discuss the depiction of horses on wallpaper and flowers on carpets is the author’s way of showing the absurdity of

Discuss the theme of outcasts in these chapters in at least two hundred words. what does it mean that the church takes in people that the clan rejects? how is nwoye an outcast? how does the clan treat the missionaries as outcasts?

What is the main way a sequence of events is used to resolve a conflict?