Excerpt from Ten Thousand a-Year, Vol. 5
Did, however, the gaudy flower of Titmouse's victory at Yatton contain the seeds of inevitable defeat at St. Stephens? Twas surely a grave question; and had to be decided by a tribunal, the constitution of which, however, the legislature hath since seen fit altogether to alter. With matters, therefore, as they then were - but now are not - I deal freely, as with history.
The first glance which John Bull caught of his new House of Commons, under the Bill for Giving Everybody Everything, almost turned his stomach, strong as it was, inside out; and he stood for some time staring with feelings of alternate disgust and dismay. Really, as far at least as outward appearances and behaviour went, there seemed scarcely fifty gentlemen among them: and those appeared ashamed and afraid of their position. 'Twas, indeed, as though the scum that had risen to the simmering surface of the caldron placed over the fierce fires of revolutionary ardour, had been ladled oft and flung upon the floor of the House of Commons. The shock and mortification produced such an effect upon John, that he took for some time to his bed, and required a good deal of severe treatment, before he in any degree recovered himself. It was, indeed, a long while before he got quite right in his head!
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