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But notwithstanding these indications of battle, the early portion of the proceedings was unmarked by excitement, being tinged with the purposeless lack of vitality that had of late marked all affairs of the Sefborough Ministry; and it was not until the adjournment of the House for the Easter recess had at last been moved that the spirit of activity hovering in the air descended and galvanized the assembly into life.
Every word wrung from Lakely was another stimulus to pride, another subtle tribute to the curious force of personality. "Well?" he said. "Well?" Lakely smiled. "We all know that Sefborough's ministry is well, top-heavy," he said. "Sefborough is building his card house just a story too high. It's a toss-up what 'll upset the balance.
Next came Fraide, who, in one of his rare and polished speeches, touched with much feeling upon his personal grief at the news reported from Persia, and made emphatic indorsement of Loder's words. Following Fraide came one or two dissentient Liberals, and then Sefborough himself closed the debate.
"Because there was a great scene in the House last night," he began, hurriedly; "because when you go back you'll find that Sefborough has smashed up over the assassination of Sir William Brice-Field at Meshed, and that you have made your mark in a big speech; and because " Abruptly he stopped. The thing he had come to say the thing he had meant to say would not be said.
At last he dropped the paper with a gesture of satisfaction and leaned back in his chair. "Well," he said, "what d'you think of this? How's this for a complication?" Loder turned round. "I think," he said, quietly, "that we can't overestimate it." Lakely laughed and took a long pull at his cigar. "And we mustn't be afraid to let the Sefborough crowd know it, eh?"
As he resumed his seat, very pale, but exalted as men are exalted only once or twice in a lifetime, it rose about him clamorous, spontaneous, undeniable. Near at hand were the faces of his party, excited and triumphant; across the house were the faces of Sefborough and his Ministry, uncomfortable and disturbed.
"I shall be home at eleven," she said below her breath. Loder dined with Lakely at Chilcote's club; and so absorbing were the political interests of the hour the resignation of Sir Robert Sefborough, the King's summoning of Fraide, the probable features of the new ministry that it was after nine o'clock when at last he freed himself and drove to the "Arcadian" Theatre.
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