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Sketches In The House (1893)

CHAPTER XV
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Now Mr.Balfour is in many points very superior to Joe.

He should leave personal vituperation to him: he is more active, defter, and more willing to do such dirty work.

Moreover, it is in the recollection of the members that, in the Coercionist struggle, Mr.
Balfour seemed to have towards Mr.Dillon an unusual amount of personal animosity.

Speaking with want of grace and personal courtesy, which are things, I am bound to say, uncommon with him, he accused Mr.Dillon of deliberate and conscious hypocrisy.

This also was a tactical blunder, and will largely account for the transformation following, to which I am going to refer.
[Sidenote: The transformation.] The House on the following day, July 4th, was very still when Mr.Dillon rose--evidently to refer to the incident of the previous night.


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