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"You can't do that," I said, "the hymn is the central fact in the situation." Clithering thought this over and evidently failed to understand it. "What I am empowered to suggest," he said, "is a compromise so very favourable to the Ulster claims that I can hardly imagine your rejecting it.
They still and I am writing several months after the new Irish Government has been firmly established congratulate each other on the way in which the third Home Rule Bill was defeated by the unfaltering attitude of the Ulster Loyalists. Godfrey, I regret to say, failed to marry Miss Clithering. She took a violent dislike to him after he had spent three weeks in her father's house.
"I shall be so much obliged," he said, "if you will spare me a few minutes." I did not want to spare any minutes to Sir Samuel Clithering. In the first place I had promised to take Marion to the cathedral. "A Parade Service" I quote the official title of the function was to be held for the benefit of the volunteers and Marion naturally wanted to see Bob Power at the head of his men.
Clithering is a man who accumulates private secretaries rapidly. It would not have surprised me to hear that he had a dozen. "I brought him," Clithering went on, "to take notes of our conversation. I thought that you would prefer him to a stranger." I should very much have preferred the young man from Toynbee Hall who escorted Marion to the cathedral.
It seemed absurd to go down to Bob Power and offer, on behalf of the Government, to introduce amendments into the Home Rule Bill. Yet something of the sort must have been in Clithering's mind when he urged me to promise anything. He probably had some vague idea of consulting the wishes of the electorate. That is the sort of thing Clithering would think of doing in an emergency.
Bland stared through the window for some time. He hoped, I dare say, that the soldiers would come back, with reinforcements, perhaps with artillery. At last he gave up this idea. "Let's have a drink," he said. "We want one." He turned abruptly and stumbled over Clithering, who had fallen just beside him.
"Rather rough on the peaceable inhabitants of the town," said Bland, "the men who have kept out of the battle. I suppose you forgot that bullets come down again somewhere." "I was in one of the back streets," wailed Clithering, "far away " "Exactly," said Bland, "it's just in back streets that those things happen." "It was a woman," said Clithering, "a girl with a baby in her arms.
But, of course, he's my nephew and people might think I'd been unkind to him if I made no effort to save him. One must consider public opinion more or less. So if you could arrange to rescue him " While I was speaking Clithering shambled into the room. He was wearing a suit of pyjamas not nearly big enough for him. The waiter who put him to bed was quite a small man.
That bullet which came through our window is the only one which hit anything. It's shocking waste of ammunition." The door of the reading-room opened behind me. I turned and saw Sir Samuel Clithering. He staggered into the room and looked deadly white. For a moment I thought he must be blind. He plunged straight into a table which stood in the middle of the room in front of him. "My God!
Bob relinquished the idea of a Polar expedition with a sigh. It was Conroy himself who made the next suggestion. "If politics weren't such a rotten game " Bob did not feel attracted to political life; but he was loyal to his patron. "Clithering," he said, "was talking to me to-night. You know the man I mean, Sir Samuel Clithering.
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