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A CHANGE IN THE CABINET




  A CHANGE
  IN THE CABINET

  BY

  H. BELLOC

  “STRIVE, STRIVE, HOWE’ER WE STRIVE
  YOUTH DECLINES AT FIFTY-FIVE.”

                             OLD SAW

  METHUEN & CO.
  36 ESSEX STREET W.C.
  LONDON




_First Published in 1909_




  TO
  MISS ALICE BEARDSLEY




A CHANGE IN THE CABINET




CHAPTER I


Sir--or to speak more correctly, the Right Honourable Sir T. Charles
Repton, Bart., M.V.O., O.M., Warden of the Court of Dowry, a man past
middle age but in the height of industry, sat at breakfast in his
house: a large house overlooking Hyde Park from the North, close to the
corner of the Edgware Road, and therefore removed by at least a hundred
yards from the graphic representation which marks the site of the old
Permanent Gal