[Denzil Quarrier by George Gissing]@TWC D-Link bookDenzil 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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