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'When you warmed,' said the secretary, looking sharply at the other's
downcast eyes, which brightened slowly as he spoke; 'when you warmed
into that noble outbreak; when you told them that you were never of
the lukewarm or the timid tribe, and bade them take heed that they were
prepared to follow one who would lead them on, though to the very death;
when you spoke of a hundred and twenty thousand men across the Scottish
border who would take their own redress at any time, if it were not
conceded; when you cried "Perish the Pope and all his base adherents;
the penal laws against them shall never be repealed while Englishmen
have hearts and hands"--and waved your own and touched your sword; and
when they cried "No Popery!" and you cried "No; not even if we wade in
blood," and they threw up their hats and cried "Hurrah! not even if we
wade in blood; No Popery! Lord George! Down with the Papists--Vengeance
on their heads:" when this was said and done, and a word from you, my
lord, could raise or still the tumult--ah! then I felt what greatness
was indeed, and thought, When was there ever power like this of Lord
George Gordon's!'
'It's a great power. You're right.
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