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LUBIN. Quite an interesting idea, Doctor. Extravagant. Fantastic. But
quite interesting. When I was young I used to feel my human limitations
very acutely.
BURGE. God knows I have often felt that I could not go on if it had not
been for the sense that I was only an instrument in the hands of a Power
above us.
CONRAD. I'm glad you both agree with us, and with one another.
LUBIN. I have not gone so far as that, I think. After all, we have had
many very able political leaders even within your recollection and mine.
FRANKLYN. Have you read the recent biographies--Dilke's, for
instance--which revealed the truth about them?
LUBIN. I did not discover any new truth revealed in these books, Mr
Barnabas.
FRANKLYN. What! Not the truth that England was governed all that time by
a little woman who knew her own mind?
SAVVY. Hear, hear!
LUBIN. That often happens. Which woman do you mean?
FRANKLYN. Queen Victoria, to whom your Prime Ministers stood in the
relation of naughty children whose heads she knocked together when their
tempers and quarrels became intolerable.


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