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"And what is this club?" asked Bleak, somewhat suspicious of his friend's sanguine disposition. "The admirable plan," said Quimbleton, "is Theodolinda's idea. She knows her father better than we do. She says that his passion is for prohibiting things. He thinks he has now prohibited everything possible. We are in a position to tell him something that still remains unprohibited.
"Bishop Chuff has called me a soap-box orator. At any rate, a man who stands upon a soap-box is nearer heaven by several inches than the man who stands upon the ground." Theodolinda's face sparkled with the impact of an idea. "Come," she said, "it's not impossible after all. I have a thought. We'll offer Father an armistice and talk things over with him.
"Vote for Bleak," cried Miss Chuff "He has a wife to help him." Purplevein's argument that the office of Perpetual Souse should be an entirely stag affair fell dead before Theodolinda's glowing description of the Hostess House which Mrs. Bleak would conduct next door to the little temple which was to be erected by the government for the successful candidate.
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