I can only plead that the cause is no mere local one, but in the truest sense national--nay imperial.

For where but in the story of Merchester can be found the earliest inspiration of those countless deeds which won the Empire ?" Later, when Lady Shaftesbury asked to what he alluded, he discoursed on the project of the Pageant with dexterity and no little tact.
"What a ripping idea!.

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Now I come to remember, my husband _did_ say casually, the other day, that Mr.Bamberger had been sounding him about something of the sort.