| Title | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
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| Page | 542 |
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with it; and some of them even urged unconditional surrender, or an appeal to the arbitration of the Bankruptcy Court. In the midst of all the confusion and demoralization there was, however, one man who did not lose his presence of mind, who in this dark hour of disaster remained calm and immovable, and like a vast mountain of flesh reared his head above the storm, whose mighty intellect perceived a way to turn this apparently hopeless defeat into a glorious victory. That man was Adam Sweater, the Chief of the Band. |
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