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Excerpt from A Politician in Trouble About His Soul "And yet you do not like the Bill?" "No, I don't like the Bill; who does? It has almost every fault crowded into it that a Bill could have; but I have voted for it, and I suppose I shall support the Government, if the Lords insist on having a trial of strength over it." "That is the true Liberal way of going on! You hate the Bill, and yet you support it. How can you defend such flagrant treachery to your own opinions?" retorted Pennell. "Wait a moment," said Angus. "Before he clears his character, let him first tell us why he docs not like the Bill" "Why should you make mo tell you?" answered Danby. "Pennell's friends have been telling you over and over again during the last few weeks, and most of the things they have said are substantially true. Except Argyll and Lansdowne, nobody could have said truer things about it than Gibson did. The Bill is not a straightforward measure. It is ashamed to stand in its own shoes and to look you in the face. It is a mass of ingenious complications, just because Gladstone does not like it to be said that he is giving the three F's, after having denounced them so vigorously in old days; and therefore he wants both to do the thing and not to do it; - in which difficult performance he can always succeed better than most of us. 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.