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I tell you it isn't on sale here at all, and whatever they publish will do me no harm. When Hyacinth returned to the hotel he found Mr. Holywell seated, with the inevitable whisky-and-water beside him, in the commercial-room. 'Well, Mr. Conneally, he said, 'and how is patriotism paying you? Find people ready to buy what's Irish?
Many a young man in the city counting-house, many a mechanic at the bench, many a traveller in the commercial-room, many a student on the college-benches, is doomed to discover that the world does not love the Church better than in those days when the fires gleamed in Smithfield, and men and women were burned to death for loving God.
All day long the name of Mr. Lashmar sounded in bar and parlour, in coffee-room and commercial-room. Never had Dyce known such delicious thrills of self-respect as under the roof of this comfortable hostelry. If he were elected, he would retain rooms, in permanence, at the hotel. Unless, of course, destiny made his home at Rivenoak.
Since there were no other guests, and the evening was wet, the two were thrown upon each other's society in the commercial-room. 'I don't think, said Mr. Hollywell, in reply to a remark of Hyacinth's, 'that there's the least use trying to drag patriotic sentiment into business.
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