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Updated: May 1, 2025
All I saw was a surge of white-hot metal pouring over the plinth, a glimpse of Salad's inscription, 'To the Eternal Memory of the Justice of the People, ere the stone base itself cracked and powdered into finest lime. The crowd cheered. 'Thank you, said De Forest; 'but we want our break-fasts, and I expect you do too. Good-bye, Mr. Mayor!
None spoke or moved till the last of the dust had settled down again, turning the steel case of Salad's Statue ashy grey. 'You see you'll just have to take us over, the Mayor whispered. De Forest shrugged his shoulders. 'You talk as if executive capacity could be snatched out of the air like so much horse-power. Can't you manage yourselves on any terms? he said. 'We can, if you say so.
'Now, Ma dear, said Bella in due course, 'the salad's ready, and it's past supper-time. Mrs Wilfer rose, but remained speechless. 'George! said Miss Lavinia in her voice of warning, 'Ma's chair! Mr Sampson flew to the excellent lady's back, and followed her up close chair in hand, as she stalked to the banquet.
Prince Metternich sat in a corner talking with the impervious diplomat; I wondered if he were relating the salad's complicated relationships. We all bade one another good-by, adding, with assumed enthusiasm, that we hoped to meet soon again, when perhaps we were rejoicing in the thought that we would not do so for a long time to come. What insincere creatures we are! May, 1870.
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