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Phineas Redux

CHAPTER IX
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There will always be a number of untrained men ready to take the gift without looking at the giver.

They have not expected relief from the hands of Greeks, but will take it when it comes from Greeks or Trojans.

What would Mr.Turnbull say in this debate,--and what Mr.Monk?
Mr.Turnbull was the people's tribune, of the day; Mr.Monk had also been a tribune, then a Minister, and now was again--something less than a tribune.

But there were a few men in the House, and some out of it, who regarded Mr.Monk as the honestest and most patriotic politician of the day.
The debate was long and stormy, but was peculiarly memorable for the skill with which Mr.Daubeny's higher colleagues defended the steps they were about to take.

The thing was to be done in the cause of religion.


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