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CHAPTER XVII
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The room was thoroughly full; the roof rang with tempestuous acclamations.
Messrs.

Cowes and Cullen were in their glory; they roared with delight at each depreciatory epithet applied to Mr.Westlake and his henchmen, and prompted the speakers with words and phrases of a rich vernacular.
If anything, Comrade Roodhouse fell a little short of what was expected of him.

His friends had come together prepared for gory language, but the murderous instigations of Clerkenwell Green were not repeated with the same crudity.

The speaker dealt in negatives; not thus and thus was the social millennium to be brought about, it was open to his hearers to conceive the practical course.

For the rest, the heresiarch had a mighty flow of vituperative speech.


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