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Whether our advancing civilization is going to destroy the breed is a question which, I am pleased to say, need not be answered by my generation. There are enough Bob Powers alive to last my time. I fully intended to go to church on Sunday morning. I was, in fact, waiting for Marion at the door of the hotel, when Sir Samuel Clithering came to see me.
"It's horrible, too horrible," he said. "Oh God! Bloodshed! Bloodshed!" "Cheer up," I said, "I don't think a single man on either side has been hit yet." "I say," said Bland from the window, "did the soldiers get orders to fire over the people's heads?" "Yes," said Clithering. "Strict orders. The Cabinet was unanimous. The Prime Minister telegraphed this morning."
If you really want to stop the meeting you'll have to get out the soldiers, and even with them " "But we want to avoid bloodshed," said Clithering. "We cannot have the citizens of Belfast shot down by the military. Think of the consequences, the political consequences. A Tory Government might but we! Besides, the horrible moral guilt."
But I don't think it's quite fair to ask them to face ten times their own number of men all armed with magazine rifles when they have nothing but those ridiculous little carbines." "Oh, but the police are not to have firearms," said Clithering. "Strict orders have been given batons ought to be quite sufficient. We must avoid all risk of bloodshed." "Good gracious!" I said.
My private secretary an excellent young fellow whom I picked up at Toynbee Hall a student of our social problems a man whom I'm sure you'll like." He conducted Marion to the door and handed her over to the private secretary from Toynbee Hall. I resigned myself and led Clithering to a deserted smoking-room. "I never saw so much church-going anywhere," he said. "It's most remarkable.
"Thank God, thank God!" said Clithering. Then he crumpled up and fainted. He meant, I think, to express the relief he felt at the cessation of hostilities. He had not heard, or if he heard, had not heeded, Bland's remark. Clithering is not the type of man to thank God for any one's damnation, and he had no special dislike of Bland. "I'm damned," said Bland again.
Labour is comparatively cheap, and After all, it's a choice between that and letting the Fleet loose at Belfast again." Clithering thought this over. I think the idea of cheap labour in Tipperary cheered him up. When he next spoke it was in a most friendly tone. "I hope," he said, "that the shells which were fired " "There was only one," I said. "I heard that no lives were lost," said Clithering.
I was very glad afterwards that I thought of it. Clithering was tremendously pleased, and made me quite a long speech. He said that he looked upon my offer as a kind of first-fruit of the new spirit of amity which was coming into existence between England and Ireland. This ended our negotiations to the satisfaction of every one concerned.
The record of her bag would, I should think, haunt Sir Samuel Clithering for the rest of his life. "I've a matter of five thousand cartridges," said McConkey in a hoarse whisper, "and there's another five thousand ordered." The committee met at three o'clock in the afternoon. Sir Samuel Clithering was not, of course, a member of it; but he lurked about outside and waylaid us as we went in.
"They're all gone mad together," said Bland. "You can't charge down magazine rifles. It's impossible." "It seems to me," I said, "that if this battle is ever to be finished at all they'll have to get at each other with their fists. So far weapons have been a total failure." Clithering crawled across the room while we were speaking and clutched me by the legs.
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