[A Prince of Sinners by E. Phillips Oppenheim]@TWC D-Link bookA Prince of Sinners CHAPTER II 4/18
You are within your rights in doing so, and to speak frankly we insist upon it, or we ask for your resignation." "Are you speaking with authority, young man ?" Mr.Henslow asked. "Of course I am.
I am the representative of the Liberal Parliamentary Committee, and I am empowered to say these things to you, and more. "Well, I'll do the best I can to get a date," Mr.Henslow said, grumblingly, "but you fellows are always in such a hurry, and you don't understand that it don't go up here.
We have to wait our time month after month sometimes." "I don't see any motion down in your name at all yet," Brooks remarked. "I told you that Sir Henry struck it through." "Then I shall call upon him and point out that he is throwing away a Liberal seat at the next election," Brooks replied.
"He isn't the sort of man to encourage a Member to break his election pledges." "You'll make a mess of the whole thing if you do anything of the sort," Henslow declared.
"Look here, come and have a bit of dinner with me, and talk things over a bit more pleasantly, eh? There's no use in getting our rags out." "Please excuse me," Brooks said.
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