I Forbid the Banns! — page 131: what you’re looking at

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ON THE THAMES. I2I “TI generally speak every night. During supply I usually speak about six times every sitting. When I am at my best I have averaged as high as nine times. On exceptional occasions I have been called to. order as often as eight times in the course of an evening,’ he added with some pride. “Iam particularly fond of India and the Crofters. I doa little also on the Advance of Russia, the German Annexations in the South Seas, insults to the British flag in Central Africa, and the boy who was sentenced to four months’ imprisonment for stealing a turnip—‘ Justices’ Jus- tice, and so forth. Pray drop in some evening. If you come before I am called to order you will hear me speak. Toacolonial our House of Representatives cannot be other- wise than imposing.”’ “ Imposing,” said Cyril Southcote, who had just come up. ‘“Tmposing—not merely imposing—the embodiment of imposition.” “Touching the Jlarch Hare,” said Mr. Crawford, who also had come up to make his adieux ; “‘ could you suggest before we part, Miss Lancaster, whether this reference has an individual or a general bearing ?”’ Miss Lancaster looked at the interpreter of ‘‘ Alice in Wonderland ” attentively for some moments. She felt that if hard pressed she could identify the ante- a8 of the March Flare. “Tt is a delicate question, Mr. Crawford,” said she. “Yes,” said he, “it is a very delicate point. And yet it appears to me simple enough when you approach it ina proper spirit of inquiry. I believe the AZarch fare to refer to the Democracy.”’ ‘“ Perhaps so,” said the girl. “My dear Miss Lancaster, my conclusion is simplicity itself. The JZarch Hare as a type of madness has its equivalent in the Hatter. Now, the vernacular of a hat is a tile, and the Hadter is consequently the tiler. Now, you (€(0) $ : | CORNIECLOOOKS