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the pernicious result is perpetual in our legislation many acts of parliament are medleys of different motives because the majority which passed one set of its clauses is different from that which passed another set but the greatest defect of the house of commons is that it has no leisure
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that he has not yet the original ideas in his mind to read about that administration is an art as painting is an art and that no book can teach the practice of either
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error that of too quick change the lords leaving out a few lawyers and a few outcasts are all landowners of more or less wealth they all have more or less the opinions the merits the faults of that one class
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it seems to him a kind of mystery and it is lucky if he do not think that the forms are the main part and that the end is but secondary there are plenty of business men falsely so called who will advise him so
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such a chance does not come twice the life peers who would have been then introduced would have been among the first men in the country lord macaulay was to have been among the first lord wensleydale the most learned and not the least logical of our lawyers to be the very first
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formerly this defect in the aristocracy was hidden by their own advantages being the only class at ease for money and cultivated in mind they were without competition and though they might not be as a rule and extraordinary ability excepted excellent in state business
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the same arguments are entirely applicable at the close of an administration but at that conjuncture the two most singular prerogatives of an english king-the
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a chamber with in most cases a veto of delay with in most cases a power of revision but with no other rights or powers the question we have to answer is the house of lords being such what is the use of the lords
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i have invariably supported government in parliament upon important occasions and have always exercised my personal influence to prevent the mischief of anything like a difference or division between the two houses
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they revise legislation as far as they do revise it exclusively according to the supposed interests the predominant feelings the inherited opinions of that class
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yet the nobility were then the governing power in england in many districts the word of some lord was law the wicked lord lowther as he was called left a name of terror in westmoreland during the memory of men now living
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by what species of effort that error can be repaired i cannot tell but unless it is repaired the intellectual capacity can never be what it would have been will never be what it ought to be will never be sufficient for its work
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but that in matter of fact it was not likely that he would be useful the requisite ideas habits and faculties far surpass the usual competence of an average man educated in the common manner of sovereigns
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they were the best that could be had even in old times however they sheltered themselves from the greater pressure of coarse work they appointed a manager a peel or a walpole anything but an aristocrat in manner or in nature-to act for them or manage for them
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the british empire is a miscellaneous aggregate and each bit of the aggregate brings its bit of business to the house of commons it is india one day and jamaica the next then again china and then schleswig-holstein our legislation touches on all subjects because our country contains all ingredients
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the very element which was wanted to the house of lords was as it were by a constitutional providence offered to the house of lords and they refused it
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a great part of the borough members and a great part of the county members were their nominees an obedient unquestioning deference was paid them as individuals the peers were the greatest people as a house the collected peers were but the second house
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of which there are some remarkable instances to which i will advert here as they will tend to show you the nature of my management and possibly in some degree account for the extraordinary power which i have for so many years exercised without any apparent claim to it
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the life of the house is the worst of all lives a life of distracting routine it has an amount of business brought before it such as no similar assembly ever has had
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since the reform act this uniformity of tendency has been very evident the lords have felt it would be harsh to say hostile but still dubious as to the new legislation there was a spirit in it alien to their spirit and which when they could they have tried to cast out
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i ravel asunder i knit every flaw blossoms i scatter with tempests i awe birthplace of duty and shrine of all beauty
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the darkness kindlier than light my dream shuts out the busy world awhile and free i dream of thee like to a breath of fragrance blown from some shy blossom hidden and alone
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redeeming frost and wintry death so ever comes like scent of bloom to me my dream of thee like to a star amidst the clouds when angry tempest hurtles in the shrouds
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no envious humor cold and dun had marred the vesture he had spun all luminous to clothe his knight had henley died
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neither pillared flame nor cloud made the wild for them rejoice but their hearts with sorrow bowed in the darkness heard his voice
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there shall we lay you down to rest where will you sleep the very best mirthful and tender dear and true where shall we find a grave for you
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had henley died and stevenson been left on earth of him to write he would have chosen to indite his name in generous phrase or none
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ilgrims of the trackless deep leaving all our fathers came life and liberty to keep in jehovah's awful name
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they thought of a spirit as brave as light and they bore him up to a lonely height and they laid him there where he loved to be on a mountain gazing o'er the sea
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ah well at rest poor stevenson safe in our hearts his place is won the difference there love shall still his love requite his faults divinely veiled from sight whose tears had fallen in benison had henley died
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children of the promised day bound by hope and memory brave devoted wise as they strong with love's humility
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they thought of a love that hfe redeems of a heart the home of perfect dreams and they left him there where the worlds aspire in the sunrise glow and the sunset fire
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they thought of a soul aflood with song and they buried him where the summer long burial of stevenson at samoa myriad birds his requiem sing and the echoing woods about him ring
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building liberty not planned law that ampler life controls all the greatness of our land lying shadowed in their souls
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in the days that shall succeed prouder boast no time shall grant than to be of them indeed children of their covenant
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things above them they divined thoughts of god forever true pilgrim song and the deathless compact signed building better than they knew
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it flows as healthful as the mountain brook that gathering scent of grape and saxifrage makes joyous pastime of its pilgrimage fresh'ning each pebbly bend each mossy crook
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a dying man so say you wrote this book life is abundant here from every page cheerful courageous philosophic sage with no repining and no backward look
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i faint not neath the load i bear for grievous though the burden sometimes be i dream of thee and when at night i lie enwound in silence that is sweeter than all sound
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life is my fellow and death is my friend time cannot stay me nor evil betray me they that would harm me unknowing
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in his span of life infinities of life are caught brooding mysterious and travail fraught and near and distant answer as they can enkindled at the flame
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tothing that man's creative mind hath wrought is wholly foreign to the mind of man he looks before and after
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each distinctive grace by genius all-subduing and sublime a tsarah bernhardt theatre made native in an alien land and time as though she listening with accustomed ear had learned of english shakespeare face to face
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for since he who died in far samoa by the sea there scarce hath come through failure and success a braver spirit to the gates of death
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of world-embracing heaven-illumined thought last night a woman played in paris here the roll of hamlet
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the story journeys to forgetfulness truly yet he who wrote with failing breath in pathetic remembrance ennobled human nature
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i hoarsed up so i couldn't say much more and bill didn't say nothink at all he jest reached me his hand and he took my hand and seemed like in that grasp his heart spoke many words of comfort to mine
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so ludwig never spoke his love after that and eloise and he were as brother and sister but the love of her grew always within him and he had no thought but of her
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what d ye mean sez he comin up to me as straight as he c'u'd why bill sez i our little girl my little girl allie you know shes dead
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nd the first thing i knew there wuz water in my eyes don't know why it is but it allus makes me kind ur slop over to set nd watch a baby cooin nd playin in its mother's lap
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and now when eloise and herman were wed ludwig feigned that he had received a message from a rich relative in a distant part of the kingdom bidding him come thither and ludwig went from the village and was seen there no more
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look a hyar sam says i to the nigger come hyar nd bresh me off ag'in why ain't you tendin to bizness but it didn't do no good t all pertendin to be cross with the nigger might fool the other folks in the car but it didn't fool me i wuz dead stuck on that baby gol
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what would you-what would i say if we wuz settin in jedgment then why we'd jest kind uv bresh the moisture from our eyes nd say mister recordin angel you may nolly pros this case nd perseed with the docket
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poor bill it wuz his wife that the men were carryin in that pine box to the baggage-car likely lookinbaby bill says i cheerful like perfect pictur uv its mother kind uv favors you round the lower part uv the face tho
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that's bill perhaps as he stands up f'r jedgment a miserable tremblin nd unworthy thing perhaps but twined about all over with singin and pleadin little children-and that is pleasin in god's sight i know
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a compassion infinitely tenderer and sweeter than ours and the more i think on t the more i reckon that bill will plead to win that mercy for like as not the little ones my
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i said this to make bill feel happier if i'd told the truth i'd ve said the baby wuz a sickly yaller lookin little thing for so it wuz looked haff starved too couldn't help comparin it with that big fat baby in its mother's arms over the way
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he knocked boldly at the castle gate and demanded to be brought into the presence of eloise and eloise said bid him enter perchance his music will comfort my breaking heart
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hello bill says i what air you totin so kind uv keerful like in your arms there why i've got the baby says he nd as he said it the tears come up into his eyes your own baby bill says i
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you've seen an old sycamore that the lightnin has struck the ivy has reached up its vines nd spread em all around it nd over it coverin its scars nd splintered branches with a velvet green nd fillin the air with fragrance you've seen this thing and you know that it is beautiful
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ones my allie with the rest will run to him when they see him in his trubble and will hold his tremblin hands nd twine their arms about him and plead with him for compassion
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then when the old man had come into her presence behold he was the master ay the master whose fame was in every land whose heart music was on every tongue
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yes says he nellie took sick uv the janders a fortnight ago nd nd she died nd i'm takin her body up to texarkany to bury she lived there you know nd i'm goin to leave the baby there with its gran'ma
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well just afore the train started ag'in who should come into the car but bill woodson and he wuz lookin powerful tough bill herded cattle for me three winters but hed moved away when he married one uv the waiter-girls at spooner's hotel at hoost'n
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but the master gave the purse of gold to the poor of the village wherein he lived in those days herman died full of honors and years and there was a great lamentation in the land for herman was beloved by all and eloise wept unceasingly and would not be comforted
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his kindly face was deeply wrinkled and a venerable beard swept down upon his breast he was weary and foot-sore but he heeded not the words of pity bestowed on him by all who beheld him tottering on his way
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on the seventh day after herman had been buried there came to the castle in the park an aged and bowed man who carried in his white and trembling hands a violin
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bill says i here's a ten-dollar note for the baby nd god bless you thank ye mr goodhue says he nd he choked all up as he moved off with that yaller little baby in his arms
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it is the song of our love-life murmured eloise how full of memories it is-what tenderness and harmony and oh what peace it brings but tell me master what means this minor chord
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with long yaller hair nd frowzy beard nd she saw that he wuz tremblin nd hed tears in his eyes she looked down at the fat baby in her arms nd then she looked out'n the winder at the great stretch uv prairie land nd seemed like she wuz lookin off further n the rest uv us could see
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he took off his hat nd bent down over her nd said somethin none uv the rest uv us could hear the lady kind uv started like she wuz frightened nd then she looked up at bill nd looked him right square in the countenance she saw a tall ganglin awkward man
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now i ain't defendin bill i'm jest tellin the truth about him nothink i kin say one way or t'other is goin to make enny difference now bill's dead nd buried nd the folks is discussin him nd wond'rin whether his immortal soul is all right
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if thou art indeed the master said eloise let thy music be balm to my chastened spirit the master said ay eloise i will comfort thee in thy sorrow and thy heart shall be stayed and a great joy will come to thee
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ain't it kind o curious how sometimes we find a great big awkward man who loves sech things bill had the biggest feet in the township but i'll bet my wallet that he never trod on a violet in all his life
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the master did not pause as he played it seemed as if each tender word and caress of herman's life was stealing back on music's pinions to soothe the wounds that death had made
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bill never took no slack from enny man that wuz sober but the children made him play with em and he'd set for hours a watchin the yaller hammer buildin her nest in the old cottonwood
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anything i kin do for you bill says i but he didn't make no answer all uv a suddint he sot his eyes on the prutty lady that had the fat baby sleepin in her arms nd he made a break for her like he wuz crazy
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is it herman that speaks to me cried eloise it is his voice i hear and it speaks to me of love with thy heart music o master all the sweetness of his life comes back to comfort me
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it warn't very fur up the road he wuz goin nd he found a seat in one uv the front cars but along about an hour after that back come bill moseyin through the car like he wuz huntin for somebody seemed like he wuz in trubble and wuz huntin for a friend
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then the master drew his bow across the strings and lo forthwith there arose such harmonies as eloise had never heard before gently persuasively they stole upon her senses and filled her soul with an ecstasy of peace
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and nex day he had a piece in the paper about our little girl we cut it out and put it in the big bible in the front room sometimes when we get to fussin martha goes nd gets that bit of paper nd reads it to me
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it warn't when the likker wuz in bill that bill wuz at his best but when he hed been on to one uv his bats nd had drunk himself sick nd wuz comin out uv the other end of the bat then bill wuz one uv the meekest nd properest critters you ever seen
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sometimes i hev worried bout bill but i don't worry bout him no more uv course bill had his faults i never liked that drinkin business uv his'n yet i allow that bill got more good out'n likker and likker got more good out'n bill than i ever see before or sence
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this undertone of sadness and of pathos that flows like a deep unfathomable current throughout it all and wailing weaves itself about thy theme of love and happiness with its weird and subtile influences
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when the burgomaster died all his possessions went to herman and eloise and they were accounted the richest folk in the province and so good and charitable were they that they were beloved by all
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baby gol durn his pictur and there the little tyke set in its mother's lap doublin up its fists nd tryin to swaller em nd talkin like to its mother in a lingo i couldn't understan
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then at last she turnt around nd said yes to bill nd bill went off into the front car ag'in none uv the rest uv us knew what all this meant but in a minnit bill come back with his little yaller baby in his arms
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then the master said it is that shade of sorrow and sacrifice o eloise that ever makes the picture of love more glorious an undertone of pathos has been my part in all these years to symmetrize the love of herman and
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the trubble with bill seemed to be that his conscience didn't come on watch quite of'n enuff it'll be ten years come nex spring sence bill showed up here
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the master indeed was ludwig but when they hastened to do him homage he heard them not for with that last and sweetest heart-song his head sank upon his breast and he was dead
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the little yaller baby didn't cry very long seemed like it knowed there wuz a mother holdin it not its own mother but a woman whose life hed been hallowed by god's blessin with the love nd the purity nd the sanctity uv motherhood
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the song of thy love is beautiful and who shall say it is not beautified by the sad undertone of ludwig's broken heart thou art ludwig cried eloise thou art ludwig who didst love me and hast come to comfort me who loved thee not
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god bless that lady i say wherever she is to-day nd god bless all wimmin folks for they're all alike in their unselfishness nd gentleness nd love
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what did the lady over the way do but lay her own sleepin baby down on the seat beside her nd take bill's little yaller baby nd hold it on one arm nd cover up its head nd her shoulder with a shawl jist like she had done with the fat baby not long afore
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i reecollect that one time he got a telegraph mr ivins told me bout it afterwards and when he read it he put his hands up to his face nd groaned like
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i don't know whar he come from seemed like he didn't want to talk about his past i allers suspicioned that he had seen trubble maybe sorrer i
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why i wouldn't hev swapped that sight uv bill an them two babies nd that sweet woman for all the cattle in texas it jest made me know that what i'd allus thought uv wimmin was gospel truth
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uv course they're a necessity just as men are uv course if there warn't no wimmin folks there wouldn't be no men folks leastwise that's what the medikil books say
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bill wuz the best lokil the paper ever had he didn't hustle around much but he had a kind er pleasin way uv dishin things up he c'u'd be mighty comical when he sot out to be but his best holt was serious pieces nobody could beat bill writing obituaries
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meanwhile herman had risen to greatness in the army for by his valorous exploits he had become a general and he was much endeared to the king and eloise and herman lived in a great castle in the midst of a beautiful park and the people came and paid them reverence there
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