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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Tories '11 be in. Come come ? off wid ye, I say I 've a coach at the door I ? (hiccup) ? I sha'n't ? can't ? 'pon my life Och, off wid ye ? is n't it mad that Mr. O'Gibbet is wid ye? He's one eye ? aha and one leg ? Too-ra-laddy, hiecuped the young senator. Devil buru me if I don't tie ye hand an' foot together cried O'Doodle, impetuously. What the devil have ye been about wid that black eye o' yours, and ? but 111 spake about it in the coach. Off wid ye Isn't time worth a hundred pounds a minute ? Within a minute or two's time O'Doodle hud got him safely into the coach, and down to St. Stephen's they rattled at top speed. There was going on, indeed, a desperate fight ? a final trial of strength between Ministers . and the Opposition, on a vote of want of confidence; and a division expected every minute. Prodigious had been the efforts of both parties ? the whip unprecedented. Lord Bulfinch had, early in the evening, explicitly stated that Ministers would resign unless they gained a majority: and, to their infinite vexation and astonishment, three of their stanch adherents?.Titmouse being one?were missing just at the critical moment. The Opposition had been more fortunate; every man of theirs had come up ? and they were shouting tremendously, Divide divide divide while, on the other hand, Ministers were putting up men, one after another, to speak against time, (though not one syllable they said could be heard, ) in order to get a chance of their three missing men coming up. If none of them came, Ministers would bo exactly even with their opponents; in which case they were very much afraid that they ought to resign. lTp the stairs and into the lobby came O'Doodle, breathlessly, with his prize. Och, my dear O'Dood...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217882316 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217882315 |
| Weight | 1.02 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.70 In |
| List Price | $25.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 314 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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