18/40 For in their day, you see, there'll be no squires, and no parks. The land 'll be the people's, and all this kind of thing--_your_ gates, _your_ servants, _your_ fine house, _your_ game-coverts, and all the rest of it--will be like a bit of history out of Noah's Ark.' The Squire looked at him attentively. 'I suppose you're one of those revolutionary fellows the papers talk about ?' 'That's it. Only there are a good many of us. When the time comes,' he nodded pleasantly, 'we shall know how to deal with you.' 'It'll take a good deal longer than you think,' said the Squire coolly; 'unless indeed you borrow the chap from Russia who's invented the machine for cutting off five hundred heads at once, by electricity. |