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"Well, I can tell you anything that is in an English Blue-book, Harry, although those fellows nowadays write a lot of nonsense. When I was in the Diplomatic, things were much better. But I hear they let them in now by examination. What can you expect? Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end.
Let any man look into Lord Devon's blue-book, and he will find ample evidence in support of our assertion; unhappily, the dicta of those least worthy of credit are generally adopted, because they pander to the popular feeling; and the country is called upon to decide a disputed point, and Parliament to legislate, on evidence to which no private individual would pay the slightest attention, merely because it has been adopted and sanctioned by the report of a government commission.
If I get a C on it I'll be doing well. I thought maybe I'd go over it again, but I guess it'll have to do." "Where is it?" "Here somewhere." Tom searched at the far end of the table and drew a blue-book to light. "Want to see it?" Steve took it and glanced over it, a puzzled frown on his forehead. "What's the matter?" asked Tom. "Don't you like it? I guess it is pretty punk, though."
This was all very well but got us nowhere. On the day following, however, our difficulties were unexpectedly solved. Moolitonu was our official map. On his broad back in the most exquisite azure tattooing was a diagram of the island showing all main-routes, good and bad trails and points of interest. Moolitonu was, in fact, a human Blue-book.
Tom went out, closing the door behind him, and Mr. Daley cleared his throat. "Will you sit down, sir?" asked Steve. "Er thanks, yes, just for a minute. I er I believe you called this evening when I was out, Edwards." "Yes, sir, about eight." "Yes, yes. Sorry I was not in. I wonder if if you happened to see a blue-book on my table when you were there, Edwards."
He brings out the blue-book and shows the boson. 'Look, he says. 'Paragraph fourteen thousand four hundred and forty-two, or whatever it was. 'Hose, he goes on to read, 'is expendible property, to be surveyed and wiped off the property-books by condemning to the scrap-heap and sold in the open market to the highest bidder. There, says our new-made ensign to our boson, 'what it says.
Our criticism has never opened its arms wide enough to embrace all imaginative literature as poetry, and in the English sense nothing in the world's drama is denser or more unqualified prose than The Enemy of the People, without a tinge of romance or rhetoric, as "unideal" as a blue-book.
Daley's eyes inspected the pile of books at his elbow, and the corner of a blue-book met his gaze. "This is doubtless it." He drew it forth. "It doesn't look such a herculean task, Edwards. Here are seven pages, rather more than required, I'd say, and " Mr. Daley ceased abruptly, and, after a moment, Steve, who had been gloomily regarding the floor, looked across.
"A blue-book? No, sir." "Oh! That is strange, Edwards. You are certain you didn't take down a blue-book of your own and bring it back again?" "Absolutely sure, sir." "But er someone saw you leave my room, Edwards, with a blue-book in your hand." Steve flushed and his voice held an angry tremor as he answered: "Someone was mistaken, Mr. Daley, whoever he was.
An English Blue-book is full of the interminable negotiations conducted by Lord Napier and the Earl of Minto in the hope of bringing the strife to an end. When the parliament summoned by the revolutionary government declared the downfall of the House of Bourbon, all the stray princes in Europe, including Louis Napoleon, were reviewed as candidates for the throne.
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