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Sketches In The House (1893)

CHAPTER XV
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But Mr.Harrington is a deft and tenacious combatant.

In spite of all attempts to stop him, in spite of the tremendous uproar raised by the Unionists and Tories, he managed to get out what he had to say.

He brought Mr.Chamberlain face to face with this spectre of his dead past.
[Sidenote: Mr.Balfour does not score.] Meantime, Mr.Balfour made a great mistake.

He had listened to the speech of Mr.Chamberlain, and had been one of those who had joined in the cheers at the exposure of Mr.Dillon's accidental mistake.

There he should have left it, but, carried away by the hope of driving the point home against a political enemy, he needs must add something to what Mr.
Chamberlain had said.


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