18/36 You're a Free Trader and can tell our people what a wash-out Protection is in the Colonies. All you fellows have the gift of the gab--I wish to Heaven I had it. I'll be for evermore in your debt.' I had very few notions about Free Trade one way or the other, but I saw no other chance to get what I wanted. My young gentleman was far too absorbed in his own difficulties to think how odd it was to ask a stranger who had just missed death by an ace and had lost a 1,000-guinea car to address a meeting for him on the spur of the moment. But my necessities did not allow me to contemplate oddnesses or to pick and choose my supports. |