[The Trespasser Complete by Gilbert Parker]@TWC D-Link bookThe Trespasser Complete CHAPTER VIII 15/23
But we can get hold of a few clear ideas, and measure things against them.
I know and have talked with a good many of you here ['That's so! That's so!'], and you know my ideas pretty well--that they are honest at least, and that I have seen the countries where freedom is 'on the job,' as they say.
Now, don't put your faith in men and in a party that cry, 'We will make all things new,' to the tune of, 'We are a band of brothers.' Trust in one that says, 'You cannot undo the centuries.
Take off the roof, remove a wall, let in the air, throw out a wing, but leave the old foundations.' And that is the real difference between the other party and mine; and these political games of ours come to that chiefly." Presently he called for the hands of the meeting.
They were given for Mr.Babbs. Suddenly a man's strong, arid voice came from the crowd: "'Allow me to speak, me noble lord!' [Great laughter.
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