[The Man Between by Amelia E. Barr]@TWC D-Link bookThe Man Between CHAPTER VII 11/17
And he tried to wear one eyeglass, and let it fall, and fall, and then told the men 'he couldn't manage half a pair of spectacles; but he could manage their interests and fight for their rights,' and such like talk.
And he walked like Mostyn, and he talked like Mostyn, and spread out his legs, and twirled his walking stick like Mostyn, and asked them 'if they would wish him to go to Parliament in that kind of a shape, as he'd try and do it if they wanted a tailor-made man'; and they laughed him down, and then he spoke reasonable to them.
John Thomas knows what Yorkshire weavers want, and he just prom-ised them everything they had set their hearts on; and so they sent him to Parliament, and Mostyn went to America, where, perhaps, they'll teach him that a man's life is worth a bit more than a bird or a rabbit.
Mostyn is all for preserving game, and his father was a mean creature.
When one thinks of his father, one has to excuse the young man a little bit." "I saw a good deal of Mr.Mostyn in New York," said Ethel.
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