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Sketches In The House (1893)

CHAPTER VI
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It was on this occasion that Jimmy spread something like dismay in the bench on which he sate.
Mr.Schloss, who had been appointed as a correspondent by Mr.Mundella, has a name which shows a German origin.

Jimmy insisted on speaking of him accordingly as "Herr Schloss." And there, not a yard from Jimmy, sate the Baron de Worms, one of the most portentous and pretentious of English patriots, who bears not only a German name, but a German title.
I don't know whether "Herr" Goschen was in the House at the same time; if so, his feelings must have been very poignant.

Mr.Mundella doesn't know how to treat these Obstructives.

The main thing is not to take them seriously.

Jimmy, to tell the truth, makes no pretence of taking himself seriously, and grins through a horse-collar most of the time he is speaking.


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