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The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn

CHAPTER XLV
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I hope you won't forget yourself, and cry 'Faug a Ballagh,' when one of the bishops rises to speak.

And whatever you do, don't sing 'Gama crem'ah cruiskeen' in the lobby." "My dear fellow," said he, "I am not in the House of Lords at all.

Only an Irish peer.

I intend to get into the Commons though, and produce a sensation by introducing the Australian 'Co'ee' into the seat of British legislature." How long these four would have gone on talking unutterable nonsense, no man can say.

But Frank Maberly coming in, greeted them courteously, and changed the conversation.
Poor Frank! Hard and incessant work was beginning to tell on that noble frame, and the hard marked features were getting more hard and marked year by year.


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