CHAPTER XIV.
THE HONORABLE MEMBER IS CLEARLY OUT OF ORDER.
Mr.Ayrton met his daughter the next morning with the good news that he had found among his specimen cases of phrases, one that would effectually silence the member from Wales who had been nominated by the Nonconformist Eastern Missionary Society to put that question to the minister of the Annexation Department on the subject of Mr.Courtland, the explorer.

Mr.Ayrton was the better pleased at his discovery, because of the inoffensive nature of the phrase which he had taken out of its case, so to speak.

As a rule, he did not mind being offensive if only his phrase was apt.

Only people who had no artistic appreciation found fault with the tone of some of his most notable phrases.

He did not mind whether they were just or unjust, they said.