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CHAPTER XVII
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Thus Mr.Cowes's question was received with vociferous approval.

Those present who did not understand the allusion were quickly enlightened by their neighbours.

A crowd of Englishmen working itself into a moral rage is as glorious a spectacle as the world can show.

Not one of these men but heartily believed himself justified in reviling the traitor to his class, the betrayer of confiding innocence.

Remember, too, how it facilitates speech to have a concrete topic on which to enlarge; in this matter a West End drawing-room and the Hoxton coffee-shop are akin.


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