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ANOTHER IMPENDING APOLOGY.
"Ainsi parla l'editeur du _Daily Herald_. Lord Lansbury a toujours ete
l'enfant cheri et terrible du parti travailliste anglais."--_Gazette de
Lausanne._
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"WANTED.
Small nicely furnished house, nice locality, for nearly married couple,
from August 1st."--_Johannesburg Star._
We trust that no one encouraged them with accommodation.
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[Illustration: THE MAKING OF A REFORMER.
SHOWING THE INFECTIOUS INFLUENCE OF ORATORY.]
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THE MUDFORD BLIGHT.
Mary settled her shoulders against the mantel-piece, slid her hands into
her pockets and looked down at her mother with faint apprehension in her
eyes.
"I want," she remarked, "to go to London."
Mrs. Martin rustled the newspaper uneasily to an accompanying glitter of
diamond rings. Mary's direct action slightly discomposed her, but she
replied amiably. "Well, dear, your Aunt Laura has just asked you to
Wimbledon for a fortnight in the Autumn."
Mary did not move. "I want," she continued abstractedly, "to _live_ in
London."
Mrs. Martin glanced up at her daughter as if discrediting the authorship of
this remark. "I don't know what you are thinking of, child," she said
tartly, "but you appear to me to be talking nonsense.
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