Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Name: The Napoleon of Notting Hill — Book IV, Chapter II
Author: Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The Napoleon of Notting Hill — Book IV, Chapter II (1904)

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“The Napoleon of Notting Hill — Book IV, Chapter II”, published in 1904, is a work by Gilbert Keith Chesterton. It explores elements such as the Court Journal, Buck and omnibus.

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton, The Napoleon of Notting Hill — Book IV, Chapter II (1904)

“ It will cost us thousands to crush this ridiculous riot. Suppose we let it alone?"
"And be thrashed in public by a red-haired madman whom any two doctors would lock up?" cried out Buck, starting to his feet. "What do you propose to do, Mr. Barker? To apologize to the admirable Mr. Wayne? To kneel to the Charter of the Cities? To clasp to your bosom the flag of the Red Lion? To kiss in succession every sacred lamp-post that saved Notting Hill? No, by God! My men fought jolly well—they were beaten by a trick. And they'll fight again."
"Buck," said Barker, "I always admired you. ”

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton, The Napoleon of Notting Hill — Book IV, Chapter II (1904)

“ And, running out of the office, he jumped upon a blue Bayswater omnibus that went swinging by.
"Well," said Barker, gloomily, "well."
"Barker," said Buck, "business may be lower than politics, but war is, as I discovered last night, a long sight more like business. You politicians are such ingrained demagogues that even when you have a despotism you think of nothing but public opinion. So you learn to tack and run, and are afraid of the first breeze. Now we stick to a thing and get it. And our mistakes help us. ”

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton, The Napoleon of Notting Hill — Book IV, Chapter II (1904)

“ For when all the papers of a people have been for years growing more and more dim and decorous and optimistic, the dimmest and most decorous and most optimistic is very likely to win. In the journalistic competition which was still going on at the beginning of the twentieth century, the final victor was the Court Journal.
For some mysterious reason the King had a great affection for hanging about in the Court Journal office, smoking a morning cigarette and looking over files. Like all ingrainedly idle men, he was very fond of lounging and chatting in places where other people were doing work. ”

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton, The Napoleon of Notting Hill — Book IV, Chapter II (1904)

“ It pains us to say such things, but, speaking as we do in the public interests (I plagiarise from Barker's famous epigram) , we shall not shrink because of the distress we may cause to any individual, even the most exalted. At this crucial moment of our country, the voice of the People demands with a single tongue, 'Where is the King?' What is he doing while his subjects tear each other in pieces in the streets of a great city? ”

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton, The Napoleon of Notting Hill — Book IV, Chapter II (1904)

“ I leave it, Special War Correspondent of the Court Journal. It is useless to stop me, Pally; it is vain to cling to my knees, Buck; it is hopeless, Barker, to weep upon my neck. 'When duty calls'—the remainder of the sentiment escapes me. ”

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton, The Napoleon of Notting Hill — Book IV, Chapter II (1904)

“ King Auberon descended from the omnibus with dignity. The guard or picket of red halberdiers who had stopped the vehicle did not number more than twenty, and they were under the command of a short, dark, clever-looking young man, conspicuous among the rest as being clad in an ordinary frock-coat, but girt round the waist with a red sash and a long seventeenth-century sword. ”

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton, The Napoleon of Notting Hill — Book IV, Chapter II (1904)

“ Barker to come here also."
As he spoke, indeed, Barker came swinging into the office, with his usual air of hurry.
"What is happening now?" asked Buck, turning to him with a kind of relief.
"Fighting still going on," said Barker. "The four hundred from West Kensington were hardly touched last night. They hardly got near the place. Poor Wilson's Bayswater men got cut about, though. They fought confoundedly well. They took Pump Street once. What mad things do happen in the world. To think that of all of us it should be little Wilson with the red whiskers who came out best." ”

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton, The Napoleon of Notting Hill — Book IV, Chapter II (1904)

“ Do you know what I am going to do for you?"
"No, your Majesty," replied the Paladium, vaguely.
"I'm going to put your paper on strong, dashing, enterprising lines," said the King. "Now, where are your posters of last night's defeat?"
"I did not propose, your Majesty," said the Editor, "to have any posters exactly—"
"Paper, paper!" cried the King, wildly; "bring me paper as big as a house. I'll do you posters. Stop, I must take my coat off." He began removing that garment with an air of set intensity, flung it playfully at Mr. ”

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