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readily understand that he is wholly incapable of 

 appreciating the motives which influenced me in 

 severing myself from Mr. Gladstone." It was 

 withering and overwhelming. The Senator said 

 no more. Mr. Chamberlain, metaphorically speak- 

 ing, had wiped the floor with him. Everybody 

 breathed a sigh of relief, and the Chinaman finished 

 his bananas. 



