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The Devil’s Paw

CHAPTER XV
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He leaned heavily upon his stick.

His expression was strangely disturbed.
"Bishop," he said, "and you, my friends, this has all come very suddenly.

I do not agree with Mr.Fenn.I consider that I am one with you.

I think that for the last ten years I have seen the place which Labour should hold in the political conduct of the world.

I have seen the danger of letting the voice of the people remain unheard too long.
Russia to-day is a practical and terrible example of that danger.
England is, in her way, a free country, and our Government a good one, but in the world's history there arrive sometimes crises with which no stereotyped form of government can cope, when the one thing that is desired is the plain, honest mandate of those who count for most in the world, those who, in their simplicity and in their absence from all political ties and precedents and liaisons, see the truth.


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