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Besides, he looked very ridiculous in pyjamas which only reached halfway down his legs and arms. "Don't you think," I said, "that it would be better for you to go back to bed? You'll be safe there, and it won't really matter much whether your telegram goes to the Prime Minister or not. A little sleep will do you all the good in the world." "We have murdered sleep," said Clithering.
"If I could get the telegram through first," he said at last, "I shouldn't so much mind " "But you wouldn't," I said; "and what is the good of throwing away your life without accomplishing anything?" "It's terrible," said Clithering, "terrible." It was terrible, of course; but I was beginning to get tired of Clithering.
But poor Clithering had to play with a pack in which one suit only, and it not even the trump suit, suddenly insisted that the game was a reality. The other three suits, the Liberals, the Conservatives, and the Irish Nationalists still behaved in the normal way, falling pleasantly on top of each other, and winning or losing tricks as the rules of the game demanded.
There were, Bland said, three bullets buried in the mattress, so it was fortunate that we had not carried Clithering up earlier in the day. "Let's get the waiter," said Bland, "if he hasn't gone away, and tell him to undress this fool!" "It's hardly necessary to undress him, is it?" "Better to," said Bland, "and take away his clothes.
Clithering caught the edge of the window-sash and dragged himself to his feet. He was just in time to see Bob's men rush along the street. They did not charge in any sort of order. They simply spread out and ran as fast as they could, as fast as I ever saw men run. Some of them took their rifles with them.
I could easily imagine that the news of Babberly's exertions, dribbling in during the day to the offices of harassed Ministers, might have reinforced with grave political considerations the hysterical humanitarian telegrams which Clithering was shooting off from the seat of war. A Tory Government might survive a little bloodshed.
We do a big business in stockings." Godfrey winced. I do not wonder. The future Lady Kilmore must, of course, wear stockings, but it is not pleasant for Godfrey to think of her supply coming straight from the paternal factory. "The Irish trade," said Clithering, "is not among the most remunerative, but "
Godfrey, take down the Prime Minister's words." "He added," said Clithering, "that there is only one thing which would please him better than to see the back of the last Irishman leaving Westminster, and that is " "Go on," I said.
"Surely," said Clithering, "the responsible leaders of the Unionist party will understand the criminal folly of You don't anticipate " "I'm nothing of a prophet," I said; "but if you ask my opinion I'd say that the police will be wiped out in about ten minutes. They're a very fine body of men; but there aren't nearly enough of them.
I did not even see McConkey with his machine gun. This disappointed me. I thought McConkey was a man of more grit. One night's work ought not to have tired him out. Clithering was in the club. He, at all events, was still active. Very likely he was caught the night before by some patrolling party and forced to go to bed.
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