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If I were a member of the government I rather think I actually was, a few weeks later Babberly would merely stimulate me. "You can tell your Government from me " said Conroy. "It's not my Government." "Well tell that Government from me, that when I want a title I'll put down the full market price. At present I'm not taking any." Next day Conroy went off with Crossan in his motor car.
His idea apparently, was to sink any British warship which was ill-advised enough to anchor there with a view to imposing Home Rule on us. Malcolmson, at all events, was quite serious. "It will never come to fighting," said Babberly again. "After all, the great heart of the English people is sound. They will never consent to see their brethren and co-religionists handed over "
The Dean said something to Babberly, but the crowd had begun the fourth verse of the hymn, and we could not hear what he said. I got up and shut both windows. The atmosphere of our committee-room was hot, and likely to become hotter; but it is better to do business in a Turkish bath than not to do it at all. There was plainly no use our talking to each other unless we were able to hear.
It said that no Nationalist wanted to see Babberly and Lord Moyne put into prison; but that most Nationalists had been made to sleep on plank beds for utterances much less seditious than this advertisement of a review. O'Donovan and McNeice tore this manifesto to pieces with jubilant scorn in the next number of The Loyalist.
I was naturally anxious to see what was going to happen. I spent my time in the train reading several different accounts of an important Nationalist meeting held the day before in a village in County Clare, the name of which I have unfortunately forgotten. Three of the chief Nationalist orators were there, men quite equal to Babberly in their mastery of the art of public speaking.
I ask you, are you prepared to undertake one?" "Good Heavens!" said Moyne. Babberly squeezed his way past Lady Moyne. "This won't do," he said to Moyne, "Malcolmson mustn't go too far." "The Dean," said Malcolmson, "has told us where to find our commanders. Looking round upon this vast assembly of determined men I can tell the Dean where to look for the rank and file of the army."
Moyne nodded sorrowfully. Babberly is the most terrific of all Unionist orators. If his speeches were set to music, the orchestra would necessarily consist entirely of cornets, trumpets and drums. No one could express the spirit of Babberly's oratory on stringed instruments. Flutes would be ridiculous. "Of course," said Moyne, still apologetically, "it really is rather a crisis you know."
I know that we shall sacrifice their friendship and alienate their sympathy if we resort to the argument of lawlessness and violence." "It's the only argument they ever listen to," said McNeice. "Look at the Nationalists. What arguments did they use?" "Gentlemen," said Babberly, "are you going to ask Ulstermen to fire on the King's troops?"
Huge crowds have cheered Babberly for saying these moving words. But Crossan received them from me in sullen silence. "It would be well," he said at last, "if your lordship and others like you were more in earnest." Crossan is not by any means a fool.
Conroy said so afterwards and Babberly entirely agreed with him. The Dean suggested that something might be put in about the sanctity of the marriage tie, a matter of particular importance to women and likely to be seriously affected by the passing of a Home Rule Bill. Lady Moyne thanked him for calling her attention to the omission.
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