Jack Westropp, Vol. 2 of 2: An Autobiography (Classic Reprint)

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The Christmas holidays had passed, and 1845 had dawned; I had completed my twenty-seventh year; Mrs. Twycross had presented her husband with a thriving son and heir; "and great events were on the gale." Lofthouse's marriage with Kate was fixed, as I have stated, for the first week of February; and I need not say I looked forward with absorbing interest alike to that happy event, and to my début in Parliament, which was to follow it immediately.

It may seem strange to the reader, to whom I have so candidly revealed the weaker side of my nature, to learn that nothing agitated me so much at this period as my anxiety to improve on the oratorical reputation that had preceded me to Parliament. Though not free from vanity, I usually made it subordinate to self-interest but vanity and self-interest alike showed the necessity of my distinguishing myself in that great assembly.

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