[Marcella by Mrs. Humphry Ward]@TWC D-Link bookMarcella CHAPTER III 17/37
But the question is, what are we to work towards? Mayn't we regard the game laws as one of the obvious crying abuses to be attacked first--in the great campaign!--the campaign which is to bring liberty and self-respect back to the country districts, and make the labourer feel himself as much of a man as the squire ?" "What a head! What an attitude!" thought Hallin, half repelled, half fascinated.
"But a girl that can talk politics--hostile politics--to her lover, and mean them too--or am I inexperienced ?--and is it merely that she is so much interested in him that she wants to be quarrelling with him ?" Aldous looked up.
"I am not _sure_," he said, answering her.
"That is always my difficulty, you know," and he smiled at her.
"Game preserving is not to me personally an attractive form of private property, but it seems to me bound up with other forms, and I want to see where the attack is going to lead me.
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