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She looked like a beautiful young headswoman. Even she asked for "a copper, please," but with a saucy coquetry befitting her adolescence. "A big girl like you too!" I ventured. She gave a fine savage laugh, without in the least jeopardising the balance of the axe. "I'll give you one if you'll tell me where the 'King' lives," said I.
No candid person will wholly dismiss the proposition that the idea of having a Lord Chancellor but not a Lady Chancellor may at least be connected with the idea of having a headsman but not a headswoman, a hangman but not a hangwoman. To urge this is not to urge the reality of the vote, but to urge its unreality.