Wouldn't I fire a broadside into their 'double deckers?' The
battle of Navarino at Mowbray fair with fourteen squibs from
the admiral's ship going off at the same time, should be
nothing to it."
"Labour may be weak, but Capital is weaker," said Devilsdust.
"Their capital is all paper."
"I tell you what," said Mick, with a knowing look, and in a
lowered tone, "The only thing, my hearties, that can save this
here nation, is--a--good strike."
Book 2 Chapter 11
"Your lordship's dinner is served," announced the groom of the
chambers to Lord de Mowbray; and the noble lord led out Lady
Marney. The rest followed. Egremont found himself seated
next to Lady Maud Fitz-Warene, the younger daughter of the
earl. Nearly opposite to him was Lady Joan.
The ladies Fitz-Warene were sandy girls, somewhat tall, with
rather good figures and a grand air; the eldest very ugly, the
second rather pretty; and yet both very much alike. They had
both great conversational powers, though in different ways.
Lady Joan was doctrinal; Lady Maud inquisitive: the first
often imparted information which you did not previously
possess; the other suggested ideas which were often before in
your own mind, but lay tranquil and unobserved, till called
into life and notice by her fanciful and vivacious tongue.
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