[The Attache by Thomas Chandler Haliburton]@TWC D-Link bookThe Attache CHAPTER XI 16/30
Sometimes it stings the clergy, and coils round them, and almost strangles them, for it knows the Church is its greatest enemy, and it is furious against it.
Then it attacks the peers, and covers them with its froth and slaver, and then it bites the landlord.
Then it changes form, and shoots at the Queen, or her ministers, and sets fire to buildings, and burns up corn to increase distress; and, when hunted away, it dives down into the collieries, or visits the manufactories, and maddens the people, and urges them on to plunder and destruction.
It's a melancholy thing to think of; but he is as of old, alive and active, seeing whom he can allure and deceive, and whoever listens is ruined for ever. "Stay, dear, I'll tell you what I will do for you.
I'll inquire about these Chartists; and when I go to London, I will write a little tract so plain that any child may read it and understand it; and call it _The Chartist_, and get it printed, and I will send you one for your husband, and two or three others, to give to those whom they may benefit. "And now, dear, I must go.
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