I will not breathe it to Gerard. I will
treasure it up. It is knowledge; it is power: great
knowledge, great power. And what shall I do with it? Time
will teach me."
END OF THE FIFTH BOOK
BOOK VI
Book 6 Chapter 1
"Another week," exclaimed a gentleman in Downing Street on the
5th of August, 1842, "and we shall be prorogued. You can
surely keep the country quiet for another week."
"I cannot answer for the public peace for another four-and-
twenty hours," replied his companion.
"This business at Manchester must be stopped at once; you have
a good force there?"
"Manchester is nothing; these are movements merely to
distract. The serious work is not now to be apprehended in
the cotton towns. The state of Staffordshire and Warwickshire
is infinitely more menacing. Cheshire and Yorkshire alarm me.
The accounts from Scotland are as bad as can be. And though I
think the sufferings of '39 will keep Birmingham and the Welch
collieries in check, we cannot venture to move any of our
force from those districts."
"You must summon a council for four o'clock. I have some
deputations to receive which I will throw over; but to Windsor
I must go. Nothing has yet occurred to render any notice of
the state of the country necessary in the speech from the
Throne.
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