Marqueray's Duel (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Marqueray's Duel "Sir, I leave it to - er - the judgment of this House to decide whether - er - the subject ought to be taken out of the hands of men who - er - have always handled it conscientiously, and now it is proposed to hand it over to others who, as the Honorable Member who spoke will last agree with me, have not the experience which - er - experience has shown to be necessary..." Honorable Members coughed and cleared their throats softly all over a dwindling House. The distinguished solitary tenant of the Treasury Bench leaned back, folded his arms, put up his feet against the table, and gaped as though he would have liked to swallow the Honorable Member at present holding the floor. In the Strangers' Gallery, which had been packed to listen to Yarborough's defense of his South American policy, one man after another got up and went out. From the seats allotted to the private secretaries of cabinet ministers, Aubrey West, in the middle of a sympathetic yawn, caught a nod and something very like a wink from his sardonic chief, and escaped like a boy let out of school. From the dim, roof-lighted sanctuary of the House, from its droned monologue and hushed footfalls, he came forth into the roar and glitter of the night life of London. The Westminster chimes had just finished striking a quarter to eleven, their plaintive tones were still floating high in air. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.