Madame ALBANESI indeed impressed me as having occasionally turned her
subordinate characters loose into a chapter, with instructions to fill it
up anyhow, while she herself thought out the next move. But the law was
always leisurely, so this characteristic might perhaps be expected in a
story so much concerned with it.
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[Illustration: _The Mother_ (_overhauling little Tommy's wardrobe_). "OH,
CHARLES, JUST SEE WHAT THAT DREADFUL CHILD HAS BEEN CARRYING ABOUT IN HIS
POCKET! A REAL CARTRIDGE WITH A BULLET IN IT. HE MIGHT HAVE BEEN BLOWN TO
BITS!"
_The Father_ (_with a glowing consciousness of assisting his country at a
critical time_). "JUST PUT IT IN A COOL PLACE FOR TO-NIGHT, MY DEAR, AND I
WILL LEAVE IT AT THE WAR OFFICE TO-MORROW ON MY WAY TO BUSINESS."]
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Handel in War-Time.
"The anthem 'O Thou that tillest' (Messiah), will be
rendered."--_Dublin Evening Mail_.
No pains are being spared to promote agriculture in Ireland.
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"The river in many places has overflown its banks."--
_Henley Newspaper_.
Even Father Thames cannot resist the modern mania for aviation.
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Extract from a review of Dr. JOHN FITZPATRICK'S "_This Realm, This
England_":--
"From a Scotsman, we deprecate the definition of 'This Realm' as
'England,' and would suggest to the learned doctor that he would have
done nothing derogatory to himself, even in the eyes of Englishmen, if
he had used the really correct and comprehensive name Britain.
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