Chapter 44

"Ladies and gentlemen," he said--and his voice had become full and confident--"your 'gallant and enterprising friend' is not much of a hand at public speaking. I have still my job to learn, and with your help I hope soon to learn it. What I have to say to you this afternoon is the outcome of my first amateurish study of public questions. You may take it that my views are honest and my own. I am not a gramophone." In this last sentence he lied, for what he said was for the most part not his own; it was the sermon wh…