[Sketches In The House (1893) by T. P. O’Connor]@TWC D-Link bookSketches In The House (1893) CHAPTER XIII 12/16
No man could be a lover of the guillotine who could wear so airy, so gay, and, above all, so juvenile and well-cut a suit of clothes.
Mr.Morley himself was overwhelmed with the amount of attention which his new suit attracted.
He, poor man, did not see the portentous political significance of the transaction, and almost sank under the multitude and variety of congratulations which he received from watchful friends.
He has done many great and successful things in the course of his brilliant career--but he never achieved a triumph so complete and so prompt as he did when he put on his light tweed suit, and steered under its illuminating rays the Home Rule Bill through the rocks and shoals, the eddies and the cross-currents of the House of Commons. [Sidenote: A brilliant pas de deux.] On the following afternoon there was another scene in which clothes had their share.
At about three o'clock there entered the House together two slight, alert figures--in both cases a little above the middle height, and both clothed in a suit of clothes the exact counterpart of each other in make, shape, and colour.
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