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"It's costing us nearly two millions a year to run the country, and if that's withdrawn you will go bankrupt." "What McNeice said," I replied, "was that you were to clear out, bag, baggage, soldiers, police, tax-collectors, and the whole " "Tax-collectors!" said Clithering. "I'm not sure " "Didn't your Prime Minister say he'd be glad to get rid of us?
McNeice tilted his chair back and began to hum the tune. Malcolmson beat time to the singing with his forefingers. Their action seemed to me to be intentionally insulting to Babberly. The crowd outside reached the end of a verse and there was a pause. "Damn that hymn!" said Babberly. This roused the Dean. It would have roused any dean with a particle of spirit in him.
Before showing it to me he insisted on my reading what he called his statement of the case. It occupied four sheets of quarto paper, closely type-written. It accused Bob Power and McNeice of using the Finola for smuggling without the owner's knowledge. It made out, I am bound to say, quite a good case. He had collected every possible scrap of evidence, down to Rose's new brooch.
He wanted to provide a kind of hospital for a class of men who ought, for the sake of society, to be secluded, lest their theories should come inconveniently athwart the plans of those who are engaged in the real business of life. "McNeice," said Bob, "is a Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. He was my tutor."
The 12th of July, was, of course, indicated by nature itself as a day in every way suitable for a great Unionist demonstration. Babberly and Lady Moyne were not the people to neglect an opportunity. They organized a demonstration. Then somebody I think it must have been McNeice in the pages of The Loyalist suggested that the thing should be called a review and not a demonstration.
That, of course, was nothing more than Babberly had proclaimed a dozen times in far more eloquent language. Nor was the fact that McNeice printed the last sentence in italics particularly startling. Babberly had emphasized the same statement with all the violence possible. But, so tense was the public mind at this time, everybody was vaguely anxious and excited.
"I don't reckon to be a military expert," said Conroy, "but it kind of occurs to me that those troops weren't doing all they knew. I don't say but you're quite right to boost your men all you can; but we'll make a big mistake if we start figuring on having defeated the British army." "I happen to know," I said, "that Mr. Conroy is quite right. Clithering " "That spaniel!" said McNeice.
Then there is Malcolmson, a man of almost incredible stupidity, but with a knowledge, hammered into him no doubt with extra difficulty, of how to handle guns. O'Donovan and McNeice were bending over some proof sheets and talking in low whispers; there was a knock at the office door, and a moment later Malcolmson entered.
"What's in it, my lord, is this. I'm resigning the management of your business here, and the sooner you're suited with a new man the better." "If my nephew Godfrey has been worrying you, Crossan," I said, "I'll take steps " "It's not that, my lord. For all the harm his talk ever did me I'd stay on. But " He looked at McNeice as if asking permission to say more. "Political business," said McNeice.
Having once passed that examination men are said to settle down into a condition of exhausted mediocrity. Gideon McNeice proved to be an exception to the rule. Having won his fellowship and thereby demonstrated to the world that he knew all that there is to know about the science of mathematics, he at once turned to theology. Theology, since he lived in Ireland, led him straight to politics.
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