His whole object being to head off our Petition while pretending to grant it, the more nonsense you talked, within limits, the better he was pleased." Brother Copas pondered a moment.
"Upon my word," he chuckled, "it was something of a feat to take a religious cock-pit and turn it into an Old Men's Mutual Improvement Society.

Since the Wesleyans took over the Westminster Aquarium--" "You need not add insult to injury." "'Injury'?
My good Warboise, a truce is not a treaty: still less is it a defeat.

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