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Sketches In The House (1893)

CHAPTER III
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Even a few briefer moments sufficed for the Scotch Registration Bill; and the House of Commons almost rubbed its eyes in astonishment to find that it had actually got through two great Bills and was about to listen to a third in the course of one evening.
[Sidenote: Employer's Liability.] But so it was; and there verily stood Mr.Asquith at the box in front of the Speaker's chair introducing the third great Bill of the Government in the same evening.

Mr.Asquith's grasp of Parliamentary method increases daily.

He is really a born Parliamentarian.

It is certain that he has made up his mind to go back to the bar when his time for retiring from office comes; it will be a tremendous pity if he does.

Such a man is wasted before juries and in the pettiness of nisi prius.


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