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What use would your Dalhousies and Lawrences be to England without her and the hundreds of thousands like her?" "And yet it is you," cried George, unable to forbear the chance she gave him, "who would take away from this very woman the power of feeding her children and saving her husband who would spoil all the lives in the clumsy attempt to mend one of them. How can you quote me such an instance!
If this sweeping charge be true, what an encomium it is upon the Dalhousies, the Gosfords, the Durhams, Sydenhams, Metcalfs, and Elgins, that they were chosen because suitable men could not be found if not supported by party.
George thrust his hands into his pockets and waited a little. "Well?" he said presently. "Well? I am waiting to hear you prove that the Dalhousies and the Lawrences have done nothing for the country, compared to what shall we say? some trade-union secretary whom you particularly admire." She laughed, but he did not immediately draw his answer.
That Hugo might have been shocked, and perhaps disgusted, to have the misunderstanding discovered to him by way of the Dalhousies' megaphone was, indeed, likely; but to have her quietly tell it to him, as it really happened, with the proper stress on circumstances and gossip, would be quite another matter.
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