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Mr. Standfast

CHAPTER FOUR
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I mixed up a little mild praise of the Germans, whom I said I had known all over the world for decent fellows.
I received little applause, but no marked dissent, and sat down with deep thankfulness.
The next speaker put the lid on it.

I believe he was a noted agitator, who had already been deported.

Towards him there was no lukewarmness, for one half of the audience cheered wildly when he rose, and the other half hissed and groaned.

He began with whirlwind abuse of the idle rich, then of the middle-classes (he called them the 'rich man's flunkeys'), and finally of the Government.

All that was fairly well received, for it is the fashion of the Briton to run down every Government and yet to be very averse to parting from it.


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