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A People’s Man

CHAPTER XII
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He has, without a doubt, so far as it is possible for such a man to have it there at all, the cause of the people at his heart.

Is it for me to ignore him, to leave what he would say to me unsaid, to pull down the pillars which have kept this a proud country for many hundreds of years, without even listening?
Remember that if I speak at Manchester the things that are in my heart, this country, for your time and mine, must perish.

Of that I am sure.

That has been made clear to me.

Do you wonder, Julia, that, before I take that last step, I lift every stone, I turn over every page, I listen to every word which may be spoken by those who have the right to speak?
That is why I am here.


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