[Sketches In The House (1893) by T. P. O’Connor]@TWC D-Link bookSketches In The House (1893) CHAPTER V 30/34
How we enjoyed the whole splendid display--a brilliant intellect playing with all the ease of its brightest and best powers; but, after all, what a flood of holy rage the whole thing was calculated to rouse in any but rancorous breasts.
However, we had our revenge.
The resurgence of Jimmy Lowther seems to be a phenomenon, as disturbing to his friends as to his foes.
The ugly necessity for sharing responsibility for his vulgar and senseless excesses has come home to Mr.Balfour.There was something very like a scene this night between him and the Newmarket steward.
Mr.Balfour was ready to accept the assurances which had been given to him by Mr.Gladstone--assurances which, if anything, erred on the side of conciliation--but Jimmy has entered on the frenzied campaign of obstruction to all and everything which his dull, narrow, and obstinate mind has mistaken for high policy. This led to a strange and striking scene.
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