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A People’s Man

CHAPTER X
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Our ideas of your personality are rather based, I am afraid, upon the _Punch_ caricature.

You've seen it, perhaps ?" Maraton's eyes lit up with mirth.
"Excellent!" he observed.

"I have had one framed." "He is standing," Lord Armley continued, turning to Mr.Foley, "on the topmost of three tubs, his hair flying in the wind, his mouth open to about twice its normal size, with fire and smoke coming out of it.

And below, a multitude! It is a splendid caricature.

They tell me, Mr.
Maraton, that it is your intention to kindle the fires in England, too." Maraton was suddenly grave.
"Lord Armley," he said, "all the world speaks of me as an apostle of destruction and death.


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