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The Fortunate Youth

CHAPTER XII
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And Jane, quietly and decently dressed, her calm eyes fixed on him, was--Jane.

These two curiously detached themselves against the human background.

It was only the sudden stillness of the exhausted applause that brought him to consciousness of his environment; that, and a heaven-sent fellow at the back of the audience who shouted: "Go on, sonny!" Whereupon he plucked himself together with a swift toss of the head, and laughed his gay laugh.

"Of course I'm going on, if you will let me.
This is only the beginning of what I've got to tell you of the Englishman who fouls the nest of England--who fouls the nest of all that matters in the future history of mankind." There was more applause.

It was the orator's appeal to the mass.


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