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Show Hardly a Compliment. In the excitement of the moment public speakers often say the opposite of what they mean to convey, and "when Henry Irving gave a reading in the Ulster hall, in 1878," says Bram Stoker, in "Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving," "one speaker made as pretty an Irl6h bull as could be-found, be-found, though the bull is generally supposed sup-posed to belong to other provinces, than the hard-headed Ulster. In descanting des-canting on the many virtues of the guest of the evening he mentioned the excellence of his moral nature and rectitude rect-itude of his private life in these-terms: these-terms: "Mr. Irving, sir, is a gentleman gentle-man what leads a life of unbroken blemish.' " |