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There is only one thing to do, and that is, to let him talk when he will. The day of the "Autocrat's" monologues is over. My friend, said I to the young fellow whom, as I have said, the boarders call "John," My friend, I said, one morning, after breakfast, can you give me any information respecting the deformed person who sits at the other end of the table?
It had an unceremonied domesticity in the abundance of its light dishes, and I fancy these did not vary much from East to West, except that we had a Southern touch in our fried chicken and corn bread; but at the Autocrat's tea table the cheering cup had a flavor unknown to me before that day.
So the great house, as it must have been for long, stood but a few feet from the old Haverhill and Boston road, surrounded by mighty elms, one of which measured, twenty-five years ago, "sixteen and a half feet in circumference, at one foot above the ground, well deserving of mention in the 'Autocrat's' list of famous trees."
They too fitted their theory to particular purposes, but they had not the courage to avow it even to themselves. The rare value of Machiavelli is just this lack of self-deception. You may think his morals devilish, but you cannot accuse him of quoting scripture. I certainly do not admire the end he serves: the extension of an autocrat's power is a frivolous perversion of government.
What memories of his concealment in the Autocrat's "Special" going to the Vereeniging Conference; of our efforts to create a strategical training ground for British troops in South Africa; of our battles against one another over the great Voluntary Service issue. 28th June, 1915. Imbros. The fateful day. Left camp with Braithwaite, Dawnay and Ward. The fire fight was raging.
There is only one thing to do, and that is to let him talk when he will. The day of the "Autocrat's" monologues is over. My friend, said I to the young fellow whom, as I have said, the boarders call "John," My friend, I said, one morning, after breakfast, can you give me any information respecting the deformed person who sits at the other end of the table?
And when John Burnham explained how the autocrat's triumvirate could at will appoint and remove officers of election, canvass returns, and certify and determine results, he could understand how the "atrocious measure," as the great editor of the State called it, "was a ready chariot to the governor's chair."
Even in the placing of the ballots in the box for the drawing of the contest board, fraud was openly charged, and even then pistols almost leaped from their holsters. Republicans whose seats were contested would be unseated and the autocrat's triumph would thus be sure that was the plan wrought out by his inflexible will and iron hand.
There is only one thing to do, and that is to let him talk when he will. The day of the "Autocrat's" monologues is over. My friend, said I to the young fellow whom, as I have said, the boarders call "John," My friend, I said, one morning, after breakfast, can you give me any information respecting the deformed person who sits at the other end of the table?
It would be everywhere recognized as the Autocrat's. But the Autocrat began again, after a quarter of a century, musical with so rich a chorus, and his voice was clear, penetrating, masterful, and distinctively his own.
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