The Coryston family; a novel . rner. Werent you here whenhe was speaking? No—Ive not long come in. The conversation dropped, just as the voice of theorator standing on the left of the Speaker rose tohis peroration. It was a peroration of considerable eloquence,subtly graduated through a rising series of rhetoricalquestions, till it finally culminated and broke in theringing sentences: Destroy the ordered hierarchy of English land,and you will sweep away a growth of centuries whichwould not be where it is if it did not in the mainanswer to the needs and reflect the character ofEnglishmen. Refor
The Coryston family; a novel . rner. Werent you here whenhe was speaking? No—Ive not long come in. The conversation dropped, just as the voice of theorator standing on the left of the Speaker rose tohis peroration. It was a peroration of considerable eloquence,subtly graduated through a rising series of rhetoricalquestions, till it finally culminated and broke in theringing sentences: Destroy the ordered hierarchy of English land,and you will sweep away a growth of centuries whichwould not be where it is if it did not in the mainanswer to the needs and reflect the character ofEnglishmen. Reform and develop it if you will;bring in modern knowledge to work upon it; change,expand, without breaking it; appeal to the sense ofproperty, while enormously diffusing property; helpthe peasant without slaying the landlord; in otherwords, put aside rash, meddlesome revolution, andset yourselves to build on the ancient foundationsof our country what may yet serve the new time!Then you will have an English, a national policy. 6. THE CONVERSATION DROPPED. JUST AS THE VOICE OFTHE ORATOR ROSE TO HIS PFRORATION THE CORYSTON FAMILY It happens to be the Tory policy. Every principleof it is violated by the monstrous bill you have justbrought in. We shall oppose it by every means andevery device in our power! The speaker sat down amid an ovation from hisown side. Three men on the Liberal side jumpedup, hat in hand, simultaneously. Two of them sub-sided at once. The third began to speak. A sigh of boredom ran through the latticed galleryabove, and several persons rose and prepared tovacate their places. The lady in the corner ad-dressed some further remarks on the subject of thespeech which had just concluded to an acquaintancewho came up to greet her. Childish!—positivelychildish! Lady Coryston caught the words, and as rose with alacrity to go into the Speakersprivate house for a belated cup of tea, her Toryneighbor beckoned to her daughter Marcia to takethe vacant chair.
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