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The Celebrity became so sensitive about it that he went back to New York before the party broke up. We grew to be quite fond of the bicycle man." She paused and shifted her chair, which had rocked close to mine. "And can you account for his coming to Asquith?" I asked innocently. She was plainly embarrassed. "I suppose I might account for it, Mr. Crocker," she replied.
I followed his finger and saw for the first time a sail-boat headed for the island, then about two miles off shore. I raised the glasses. "Yes," I said, "the Scimitar." "That's what Farrar said," cried he. "And what about it?" I asked. "What about it?" he ejaculated. "Why, it's a detective come for Allen. I knew sure as hell if they got as far as Asquith they wouldn't stop there.
Lloyd George and H.H. Asquith and John Morley were there, all in white knee breeches of silk, and swords and most gaudy coats these that are the radicals of the Kingdom, in literature and in action. Veterans of Indian and South African wars stood on either side of every door and of every stairway, dressed as Sir Walter Raleigh dressed, like so many statues, never blinking an eye.
You may choose to think the Serb a sort of a born robber; but on this occasion it was certainly the Austrian who was trying to rob. Similarly, you may call England perfidious as a sort of historical summary, and declare your private belief that Mr. Asquith was vowed from infancy to the ruin of the German Empire a Hannibal and hater of the eagles.
It was "not half so much treason to the cause of the Allies as treason to the cause of Home Rule." On the day when that statement appeared the sequel had begun to unroll itself. In the House of Commons Mr. Asquith announced the trial, sentence and shooting of three signatories to the Republican proclamation Pearse, Clarke and MacDonagh.
He would not like, so to speak, to be seen rushing down the street after Totty Toddles, or after Mrs. Asquith, or perhaps after anybody. But there is something in it distinct from a mere embarrassment at admitting enthusiasm. He might admit the enthusiasm if the object seemed to justify it; he might perfectly well be serious about a serious thing.
Cooke's friends is coming out for it in his car, and he thought something of inviting the people of Asquith up for a dance." I had my doubts concerning the wisdom of an entertainment, the success of which depended on the fusion of a party of Mr. Cooke's friends and a company from Asquith. But I held my peace. She shot a question at me suddenly: "Who is this Mr. Allen?"
She told me in one of our talks how much she regretted that her husband had taken silk and was in the House of Commons, at which I said in a glow of surprise: "But surely, Mrs. Asquith, you are ambitious for your husband! Why, he's a WONDERFUL man!" This conversation took place in Grosvenor Square the second time that we met, when she brought her little girl to see me.
Whether the aeroplanes that we had seen being shelled had carried back word that an expedition of some sort had been seen coming and going from Chalons in a large number of motors and whether they had suspected that it was the congress including Lord Kitchener, Mr. Asquith, General Cadorna and others will never be known; the fact seemed to be that Chalons had never been bombed before our visit.
Asquith lately, 'patriotism was largely fed and fostered upon reciprocal ignorance and contempt. The Englishman seriously believed that the French subsisted mainly upon frogs, while the Frenchman was equally convinced that the sale of wives at Smithfield was one of our national institutions.
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