"And to think," said the Squire, glancing sideways at the placid figure beside him, "that this is the man painted in red and blue by Unionist pavement-artists. Their stories of Mr. G. always remind me of a passage in a theme produced by a young gentleman invited to state what he knew of Cardinal Wolsey.
"'In the siege of Quebec,' he wrote, 'he ascended the mountains at dead of night, when his enemies were at rest, and took the town at daybreak. His home policy was conducted in a similar manner.'
"There is about that a picturesque air of circumstantiality, combined with a fanciful inaccuracy, equalled only by things one reads or hears with reference to my right hon. friend, and revered leader."
Business done.—Some papers on Parish Councils read.
Double Entente.
The Tzar, on peace and friendship all intent,
To France his Admiral Avellan has sent.
'Twere pity if this Russian olive-branch