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Denzil Quarrier

CHAPTER I
17/18

It'll be interesting to see how they muster.

If Liversedge knows how to go to work"-- he broke into laughter.
"Suppose, when the time comes, I go down and harangue the mob in his favour ?" Lilian smiled and shook her head.
"I'm afraid you would be calling them 'the mob' to their faces." "Well, why not?
I dare say I should do more that way than by talking fudge about the glorious and enlightened people.

'Look here, you blockheads!' I should shout, 'can't you see on which side your interests lie?
Are you going to let England be thrown into war and taxes just to please a theatrical Jew and the howling riff-raff of London ?' I tell you what, Lily, it seems to me I could make a rattling good speech if I gave my mind to it.

Don't you think so ?" "There's nothing you couldn't do," she answered, with soft fervour, fixing her eyes upon him.
"And yet I do nothing--isn't that what you would like to add ?" "Oh, but your book is getting on!" "Yes, yes; so it is.

A capital book it'll be, too; a breezy book--smelling of the sea-foam! But, after all, that's only pen-work.


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