He's using his aldermanship to gain something for himself. From LearnThat.org.
On this Saturday Bathsheba was passing slowly on foot through the crowd of rural business-men gathered as usual in front of the market-house, who were as usual gazed upon by the burghers with feelings that those healthy lives were dearly paid for by exclusion from possible aldermanship, when a man, who had apparently been following her, said some words to another on her left hand. From Wordnik.com. [Far from the Madding Crowd] Reference
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