[Better Dead by J. M. Barrie]@TWC D-Link bookBetter Dead CHAPTER II 5/15
Even the friends who thought they understood him liked him to go away. Lord Rosebery made several jokes to him, and Andrew only looked at him in response.
The general feeling was that he was sneering at you somewhere in his inside. Let us do no one an injustice. As it turned out, the Cabinet and Press were but being used in this case as the means to an end. A grand work lay ready for Andrew's hand when he was fit to perform it, but he had to learn Naked Truth first.
It was ordained that they should teach it him.
Providence sometimes makes use of strange instruments. Riach had two pounds with him when he came to London, and in a month they had almost gone. Now and again he made an odd five shillings. Do you know how men in his position live in London? He could not afford the profession of not having any. At one time he was a phrasemonger for politicians, especially for the Irish members, who were the only ones that paid. Some of his phrases have become Parliamentary.
Thus "Buckshot" was his.
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