[Sketches In The House (1893) by T. P. O’Connor]@TWC D-Link bookSketches In The House (1893) CHAPTER XVI 25/27
Mr.Goschen was marked out to perform the same task this Thursday, but who should get up but Atherley Jones.
The delighted Liberals cheered him to the echo.
Mr. Goschen had to sit down, and so the whole denouement collapsed, and the curtain fell not on the lofty and eminent form of a former Chancellor of the Exchequer, but on the less imposing figure of the disgruntled Liberal, who is always anxious to strike his party a blow. Then comes the division.
There is some excitement, though we know we have won.
And then we cheer, as we hear that we have won by 27! Clause 9 is now put as a whole.
<<Back Index Next>> D-Link book Top TWC mobile books
|