It was excellent, very clever, a beautiful piece of work, but worse than useless for your purpose.

You forget the sort of man you are fighting.

Oh, I have been following the business carefully, and I felt bound to come down to keep you in order.

To begin with, you have left your own supporters in the place in a nice state of doubt." "How ?" "Why, because you have given them nothing to catch hold of.

They expected the ordinary Conservative confession of faith--a rosy sketch of foreign affairs, and a little gentle Socialism, and the old rhetoric about Church and State.