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Meantime, the unexpected and extraordinary delay in taking the division
had brought back some members from the division lobbies; and some had
actually recorded their votes, and were returning in the ordinary course
to their seats. Among these was Mr. Logan. Mr. Logan peered somewhat
curiously at the angry faces and the shouting figures on the Tory
Benches, and approached them with the view of finding out what it was
all about. His air, somehow or other, suggested--quite wrongly, as it
turned out--to the Tories that he was meditating an assault upon some of
them: and there rose angry cries from them of "Bar! Bar!" This, in
Parliamentary language, means that the member is violating the rule
against any member standing on the floor of the House, except in the
narrow and short interspace which lies between the entrance door and the
bar--a very small bit of free territory. Logan, in his turn, was
exasperated by these remarks, and used some retort. Then there were
renewed cries that he was not in order in standing up on the floor,
together with a multitude of expletives at the expense of his party and
himself. And Mr. Logan thereupon said he would put himself in order, and
sat down on the Front Opposition Bench.
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