FORTUNE My return to Parliament meant not only the loss of a seat to the Government, a matter of no great moment in view of their enormous majority, but, probably, through their own fears, was construed by them into a solemn warning not to be disregarded.

Certain papers and opposition speakers talked freely of the writing on the wall, and none saw that writing in larger, or more fiery letters, than the members of Her Majesty's Government.

I believe that to them it took the form not of Hebraic characters, but of two large Roman capitals, the letters A and V.
Hitherto the anti-vaccinators had been known as troublesome people who had to be reckoned with, but that they should prove strong enough to wrest what had been considered one of the safest seats in the kingdom out of the hands of the Unionists came upon the party as a revelation of the most unpleasant order.

For Stephen Strong's dying cry, of which the truth was universally acknowledged, "_The A.V.'s have done it.

Bravo the A.V.'s!_" had echoed through the length and breadth of the land.
When a Government thinks that agitators are weak, naturally and properly it treats them with contempt, but, when it finds that they are strong enough to win elections, then their arguments become more worthy of consideration.