He didnot know there are moral laws that cannot be bent by any force ofglamour, or are bent only to fly back with vindictive violence. In theface of shrapnel or the Judgment Day, it was evident to Redwood thatthis man would have sheltered behind some curiously dodged vote of theHouse of Commons.What most concerned his mind now was not the powers that held thefastness away there to the south, not defeat and death, but the effectof these things upon his Majority, the cardinal reality in his life.
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