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There came a fresh, apparently causeless gust a few minutes later savage, threatening, but futile. It died out one could hear the sigh in sudden wrathful realisation of the dreary hours ahead, and the ship of state drifted on. Then Pallant and the raw House winced at the torture of his voice rose. It was a twenty-line question, studded with legal technicalities.
Ten years later there is a twenty-line obituary in the London papers, and the reader is paralyzed by the splendors of a career which he is not sure that he had ever heard of before. But meanwhile he has learned all about the continental princelets and dukelets. The average man is profoundly ignorant of countries that lie remote from his own.
The immortal twenty-line address at Gettysburg is the high water mark of sententious eloquence. With that speech should be placed the pathetic and equally perfect letter of condolence to Mrs. Bixby of Boston after her five sons had fallen in battle.
Ten years later there is a twenty-line obituary in the London papers, and the reader is paralyzed by the splendors of a career which he is not sure that he had ever heard of before. But meanwhile he has learned all about the continental princelets and dukelets. The average man is profoundly ignorant of countries that lie remote from his own.
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