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"Very occasionally rarely, in fact there are one or two members of learned societies with whom he had been in correspondence, or who are old friends. There is a Professor Hutton and a Dr. Burge, I believe; but they don't appear once in six months; and there is Mr. Everard Myatt, who is more frequent.
Dixon was all right with most people, and 'er relations 'ad a very good time of it; old Burge began to put on flesh at such a rate that the sight of a ladder made 'im ill a'most, and Charlie and Bob went about as if the place belonged to 'em. They 'eard nothing for eight months, and then a letter came for Mrs.
LUBIN. Thank God! You and I were born for one another. Who is your favorite poet, Sally? SAVVY. Savvy. LUBIN. Savvy! I never heard of him. Tell me all about him. Keep me up to date. SAVVY. It's not a poet. I am Savvy, not Sally. LUBIN. Savvy! Thats a funny name, and very pretty. Savvy. It sounds Chinese. What does it mean? CONRAD. Short for Savage. BURGE. Nonsense!
He sat down and put 'is feet in the fender, and old Burge, as soon as he 'ad got 'is senses back, went into the bar and complained to 'is niece, and she came into the parlour like a thunderstorm. "You'll beg my uncle's pardon as well as mine afore you come out o' that room," she said to her 'usband; "mind that." George Dixon didn't say a word; the shame of it was a'most more than 'e could stand.
Here is this professor: a man utterly removed from the turmoil of our political life: devoted to pure learning in its most abstract phases; and I solemnly declare he is the greatest politician, the most inspired party leader, in the kingdom. I take off my hat to him. I, Joyce Burge, give him best. And you sit there purring like an Angora cat, and can see nothing in it!
What with our huge armaments, our terrible engines of destruction, our systems of coercion manned by an irresistible police, you were called on to control powers so gigantic that one shudders at the thought of their being entrusted even to an infinitely experienced and benevolent God, much less to mortal men whose whole life does not last a hundred years. BURGE. We won the war: don't forget that.
The party of which I have the honor to be leader. LUBIN. Have you now? Thats very interesting; for I thought I was the leader of the Liberal Party. However, it is very kind of you to take it off my hands, if the party will let you. BURGE. Do you suggest that I have not the support and confidence of the party? LUBIN. I dont suggest anything, my dear Burge.
Shall we find you a first-rate constituency to contest at the next election? One that wont cost you a penny. A metropolitan seat. What do you say to the Strand? FRANKLYN. My dear Burge, I am not a child. Why do you go on wasting your party funds on the Strand? You know you cannot win it. BURGE. We cannot win it; but you FRANKLYN. Oh, please! SAVVY. The Strand's no use, Mr Burge.
FRANKLYN. It is quite true, Mr Lubin, that I and my brother have a little program of our own which It's not our own: it's the program of the whole of civilization. BURGE. Then why split the party before you have put it to us? For God's sake let us have no more splits. I am here to learn. I am here to gather your opinions and represent them. I invite you to put your views before me.
You will go down to posterity as one of a European group of immature statesmen and monarchs who, doing the very best for your respective countries of which you were capable, succeeded in all-but-wrecking the civilization of Europe, and did, in effect, wipe out of existence many millions of its inhabitants. BURGE. Less than a million. FRANKLYN. That was our loss alone.
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