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The Lord of the Sea

Chapter 6 - "PEARSON'S WEEKLY"

Word Count: 2148    |    Released on: 06/12/2017

back; and here Hogarth soon had a shed nailed together, with bellows, a

lithe ply of Hogarth's hips, and the white-hot iron gushing flushes; while Margaret, peeping, could see

kept them, intending to make up the amount already spent, and give

d in current politics? The East Norfolk division is being contested, one of the candidates, Sir Bennett Bea

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ost intelligent" article, explaining the cause, or ca

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the most intelligent' article? Pearson must him

the nation the thing which it should be doing. If I was able to form an A

alked to Beccles, and

stately great men entered upon the platform and occupied it, hisses like the escape of steam mixing with "He's a jolly good fellow

ose, amid shouts of: "Circ

ising filled the hall; and up rose Mr. Moses Max, a stout fair Jew, whose fist struck wi

, and it's only what we should expect of him. (Cheers, and cries of: "Oh, oh!") And what has he ever done for East Norfolk? Gentlemen, you may say as you like about Jews-Jews this, and Jews that-and every man has a right to his opinion in this land of glorious Saxon liberty-but no one can deny that it's Je

aid a voice-Hogart

ne region of the pit was seen to be a scrimmage of fisticuffs, mixed with policemen, sticks,

who had turned pale on Hogarth's rising, touched Hogarth's coat-tail, w

Max; "sent to disturb our meeting! Englishmen!

very light at that end of the hall: at which thing the audience was thrown into a state of boisterous lawlessness, a tumult r

ted fist; but before ever he could utter one single

es when the li

th; and it ended Mos

f the meeting, men darting from their seats with waving hats, sticks, arms, and vociferous mouth, the chairman half standing, with a shivering finger directed upon Hogarth

s hand was a P

o the front

know: but I know this about the fault, that it is something simple, commonplace, yet deep-seated, or we should all see it; but it is hidden from us by its very ordinariness, like the sun which men seldom look at. It must be so. And shall we never find the time to think of it? Or will never some grand man, mighty as a garrison, owning eyes that know the glances of Truth, arise to see for us? Friends! but, lacking him, what shall we do to be saved?-for truly this 'civilization' of ours is a blood-washed civilization, friends, a reddish Juggernaut, you know, whose wheels cease not: so we should be prying into it, provided we be not now too hide-bound: for that's the trouble-that our thoughts grow to revolve in stodgy grooves of use-and-wont, and shun to soar beyond. Look at our Parliament-a hurdy-gurdy turning out, age after age, a sing-song of pigmy regulations, accompanied for grum kettledrum by a musketry of suicides, and for pibroch by a European bleating of little children. We are still a million miles from civilization! For what is a civilized society? It can only be one in whi

own, own, own; and now his eyes had in them t

lice that don't act!" And now he raised his voice to a screa

eing two policemen running forward from the back, folded his arms, and

pit was in motion, for or against him

t he was borne off his feet toward the side, and was about to bring down his sharp-

that she was ther

not at the rush-but befor

d a room where some chairs were, but, seeing a stair, could not let her go from

s you", her forehead on his shoulder; and

id her with care on the cushions, kissed her hand: and this act Frankl sa

: "Well, how did you get through, sweet child? Who

r as coachman-and, as he went raging about the carriage, with stamps, his boot struck against a body. The

h scared, he being a Cohen, and the presence of death defilement, yet he stay

d if the man be dead-" What then? "If he be dead, I've

, in his panic, had left, and Frankl's hand rested on the handle; if he did not consciousl

listened again close, felt sure now that death was there, and no

ge to the station, and made

"Not the least: I left the man alone with the carriage, an

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