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Updated: June 14, 2025
He told of his travels in India once upon a time he had been Governor of Trankebar and you saw before you the banks of the Ganges and the white troops of women, streaming down to bathe in the river, as their religion prescribed. I never forgot the words with which Bluhme rose to go: "May I borrow the English blue-books for a few days?
And my faith in the infallibility of the paper was shaken even more one day, when I saw the Leader of the Reactionary Party himself, Privy Councillor Bluhme, at the house, and sat unnoticed in a corner, listening to his conversation. He talked a great deal, although, like the master of the house, he did not allude to his public work.
He was a very distinguished satirist and critic and his influence upon the taste and critical opinion of his day can only be compared with that of Holberg in the 18th century. Now, in concert with Bluhme and a few other of the elder politicians, he had formed a Conservative Fronde, opposed to the policy of the National Liberals.
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