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The Two Vanrevels

CHAPTER XIII
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Then he saw he had to make you forget it, or fight England and be ruined, so he forces war on Mexico, and the country does forget it.

That's it: he asks three regiments of volunteers from this State to die of fevers and get shot, so that he can steal another country and make his own elect him again.
And you ask me to drink the health of the politician who sits at home and sends his fellowmen to die to fix his rotten jobs for him ?" Crailey had persuaded himself into such earnestness, that the depth of his own feeling almost choked him, but he finished roundly in his beautiful, strong voice: "I'll drink for the good punch's sake--but that health ?--I'll see General Trumble in heaven before I'll drink it!" There rose at once a roar of anger and disapproval, and Crailey became a mere storm centre amid the upraised hands gestulating madly at him as he stood, smiling again, upon his chair.
"This comes of living with Tom Vanrevel!" shouted the General furiously.
"This is his damned Abolition teaching! You're only his echo; you spend half your life playing at being Vanrevel!" "Where is Vanrevel ?" said Tappingham Marsh.
"Ay, where is he!" raged Trumble, hammering the table till the glasses rang.

"Let him come and answer for his own teaching; it's wasted time to talk to this one; he's only the pupil.

Where is the traitor ?" "Here," answered a voice from the doorway; and though the word was spoken quietly it was nevertheless, at that juncture, silencing.
Everyone turned toward the door as Vanrevel entered.

But the apoplectic General, whom Crailey's speech had stirred to a fury beyond control, almost leaped at Tom's throat.
"Here's the tea-sipping old Granny," he bellowed hoarsely.


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