[Diana of the Crossways by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookDiana of the Crossways CHAPTER XXI 1/29
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'THE YOUNG MINISTER OF STATE'. Descriptions in the newspapers of the rural funeral of Lord Dannisburgh had the effect of rousing flights of tattlers with a twittering of the disused name of Warwick; our social Gods renewed their combat, and the verdict of the jury was again overhauled, to be attacked and maintained, the carpers replying to the champions that they held to their view of it: as heads of bull-dogs are expected to do when they have got a grip of one.
It is a point of muscular honour with them never to relax their hold.
They will tell you why:--they formed that opinion from the first.
And but for the swearing of a particular witness, upon whom the plaintiff had been taught to rely, the verdict would have been different--to prove their soundness of judgement.
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