With the scarlet backing flaming in the face of
the glorious summer
afternoon, near the very spot upon which the great battles
for Reform had been fought out in the past, and in place of England's
sturdy freeman making his historic appeal for justice, and admission
to the Commons--a girl pouring out this stream of vigorous English,
upholding the cause her family had stood for. Her voice failed
her a little towards the close, or rather it did not so much fail as
betray
to any sensitive listener the degree of strain she put upon it to
make it carry above laughter