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Spatt, cheered by the new opportunity for conversation, and in his eagerness abrogating all rules, explained how he had been in London on the previous day for a performance of Strauss's Elektra, and according to his custom had called at the offices of the Suffragette Union to see whether he could in any manner aid the cause. Mr.
"Yes, and will, if I'll pay his price. You see, he has no son, only a daughter; and she, having failed to bring off a match or two " "Having failed to bring off a match or two, has settled down into old-maidhood. She's an enthusiastic suffragette, and hates living out of London.
"The German troops are ready at Aix-la-Chapelle for an assault on Liege. Yes, sir they're going to strike through Belgium! Know what that means? England in the war! Labor troubles; suffragette troubles; civil war in Ireland these things will melt away as quickly as that snow we had lastwinter in Texas. They'll go in. It would be national suicide if they didn't." His daughter stared at him.
You would say at a glance that she was a very strong and enduring person, somewhat along the lines of a suffragette ward politician. The dinner was a genial one, after all. The General was at his best, and the wine was perfect. In lucid moments, Eddie found himself reflecting: "If I can drink enough of this I'll have delirium tremens and then I won't have to believe all that I see."
Pankhurst's followers that they would at last realize the futility of measuring their puny force against the muscle of man. Force, as the Premier had just said, must be the decisive factor. But unfortunately for these calculations the large male crowd took quite a different line. The day had gone by when men and boys were wont to cry to some expounding Suffragette: "Go home and mind yer biby."
She'll end in becoming a suffragette, and standing on a soap box she'll address the street rabble, perhaps wearing a large bonnet and standing beside a kettle holiday time ringing a bell and holding out a tambourine, a Salvation Army woman. Oh! what a fool I was to let her go away from my influence," and she sobbed, "to toil and save for her to make a brilliant match. See the way she rewards me.
And that brings us to the end of the political surface of the matter. The working objection to the Suffragette philosophy is simply that overmastering millions of women do not agree with it.
"That's a good idee, Mister," said Liz, from the cook-tent. "The dog is wuth more than any boy to watch for us." "Hear that, will you?" demanded Chet. "You girls have one fine suffragette in this Lonesome Liz, as Billy calls her." "She's ripe for battle, when it comes to pitting the ladies against the mere male," laughed Laura. "We have found that out."
One of the women in the front row of chairs uttered a crisp cry of approval. This was Mrs. Flynn, a visiting militant suffragette from England. Her aggressive manner and the eager expression of her narrow face with the gleaming black eyes declared that this woman of forty was by nature a fighter who delighted in the fray. "Yes; Mrs. Hamilton is right," was her caustic comment.
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