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Ch. 2 - The Secret of Gabriel Syme

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Ptimb wrote: I really liked this line of reasoning--> ‘You want a safe disguise, do you? You want a dress which will guarantee you harmless; a dress in which no one would ever look for a bomb?’ I nodded. He suddenly lifted his lion’s voice. ‘Why, then, dress up as an anarchist, you fool!’ This actually works. When a crowd was threatening to storm Domingo Cavallo's building, he escaped wearing a mask of his own face.
Thank you for sharing this. I had never heard of Cavello or his clever escape but it was genius and does mesh nicely with Sunday's theory.
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Ni55a wrote:Syme - with a tempered arrogance (yet arrogance all the same, likely borne out of confidence) and cool as a cucumber demeanor.
What do you suppose is the source of Syme's confidence? He does not have experience fighting anarchists in the flesh.
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Symes shows no respect for Joseph Chamberlain, whose name the Anarchists use as a pass code. See this link for background on Chamberlain's liberalism.
http://www25.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles ... rlain.html
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yeah, i definitely got the impression GKC was having a laugh at Chamberlains expense, there were a couple of classic swipes there :lol:
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I wonder too if Chesterton was making the point that Chamberlain was so average that anyone could replace him.
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[quote="stahrwe"]I wonder too if Chesterton was making the point that Chamberlain was so average that anyone could replace him.[/quote'm

Chesterton was definitley making fun of Chamberlain, although I'm not sure if he would think that anyone could replace him. Apparently the Monarchy thought that Chamberlain was quite a nuisance and hoped that he could not be duplicated.
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