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Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay

CHAPTER IV
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Now that I had risen again he hoped that they should hear me often.

See whether I do not dust that varlet's jacket for him in the next number of the Blue and Yellow.

I detest him more than cold boiled veal.

["By the bye," Macaulay writes elsewhere, "you never saw such a scene as Croker's oration on Friday night.

He abused Lord John Russell; he abused Lord Althorp; he abused the Lord Advocate, and we took no notice;--never once groaned or cried 'No!' But he began to praise Lord Fitzwilliam;--'a venerable nobleman, an excellent and amiable nobleman' and so forth; and we all broke out together with 'Question!' 'No, no!' 'This is too bad!' 'Don't, don't!' He then called Canning his right honourable friend.


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