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Zuleika Dobson; Or, An Oxford Love Story
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Sir Max Beerbohm
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The
Liberals,
who
were
in
power,
had
passed
through
the
House
of
Commons
a
measure
more
than
usually
socialistic;
and
this
measure
was
down
for
its
second
reading
in
the
Lords
on
the
very
day
that
the
Duke
left
Oxford,
an
exile.
It
was
but
a
few
weeks
since
he
had
taken
his
seat
in
the
Lords;
and
this
afternoon,
for
the
want
of
anything
better
to
do,
he
strayed
in.
The
Leader
of
the
House
was
already
droning
his
speech
for
the
bill,
and
the
Duke
found
himself
on
one
of
the
opposite
benches.
There
sat
his
compeers,
sullenly
waiting
to
vote
for
a
bill
which
every
one
of
them
detested.
As
the
speaker
subsided,
the
Duke,
for
the
fun
of
the
thing,
rose.
He
made
a
long
speech
against
the
bill.
His
gibes
at
the
Government
were
so
scathing,
so
utterly
destructive
his
criticism
of
the
bill
itself,
so
lofty
and
so
irresistible
the
flights
of
his
eloquence,
that,
when
he
resumed
his
seat,
there
was
only
one
course
left
to
the
Leader
of
the
House.
He
rose
and,
in
a
few
husky
phrases,
moved
that
the
bill
“be
read
this
day
six
months.”
All
England
rang
with
the
name
of
the
young
Duke.
He
himself
seemed
to
be
the
one
person
unmoved
by
his
exploit.
He
did
not
re-appear
in
the
Upper
Chamber,
and
was
heard
to
speak
in
slighting
terms
of
its
architecture,
as
well
as
of
its
upholstery.
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