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Sketches In The House (1893)

CHAPTER VI
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You turn sometimes, and sicken as though you were at the country fair, and saw the poor raucous-throated charlatan eating fire or swallowing swords to the hideous accompaniments of the big drum and the deafening cymbal.
[Sidenote: Mr.Carson.] No--Mr.T.W.

Russell is the mere play-actor.

If you want one of the real actualities in the more sinister side of Irish life, look at and study Mr.Carson.It is he who winds up the debate on the commission of Mr.
Justice Mathew--a debate made memorable by the ablest debating speech Mr.Morley has made in the whole course of his Parliamentary career.

I see men talking to Mr.Carson that belong to an opposite side of politics.

I confess that I never see him pass without an internal shudder.


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