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Sketches In The House (1893)

CHAPTER IX
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Its delivery was almost perfect; it had the true House of Commons air and manner.

This young man will go far.

I shouldn't be surprised if he became in time even a better debater than his father.

His education, I should say, is broader and deeper, his mind finer, and his temper sweeter and more under control.

During the latter portion of the speech his father's face had a smile, pleasant to behold; one could forgive him a great deal of his hardness, rancour, even ferocity, for this manifestation--open and frank--of kindly human-feeling.
[Sidenote: And angry.] But, as I have said, there was another manifestation of Mr.Chamberlain in the course of this very evening.


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