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 Parliament, if it be distinctly understood that a Parliament where we are not represented is not entitled to impose taxes on us. We would be in the same position as the Colonies and entitled to the same treatment.

was always with regret that H. H. turned his back on the Riviera, where he so greatly enjoyed the blue skies and warm sunshine.

H. H. never travelled about without a mass of correspondence and other papers which, owing to his rooted objection to destroying even an envelope or old invitation card, would soon assume enormous proportions. It was his practice to leave these papers unpacked to the last, so that they might be read and studied up to the moment of departure. With the cab at the door they would be thrust into two bursting dispatch-cases, and porters would struggle to close a gaping tin deed-box. Even then H. H. never felt happy while they were out of his sight, and a stranger

It might have imagined that the boxes contained priceless jewels in place of postal guides and Blue books. One particularly cold January, H. H. and his family returned from Cimiez to Canterbury for the election. It was a bitter night when they reached the hotel, and the rooms seemed very inadequately heated. The manager moved them into another part of the house, where they were agreeably surprised to find the sitting-room most beautifully warm and cosy. As the evening wore on the room grew hotter and hotter, and the hotter it became the more H. H. congratulated himself on securing immunity from the icy blasts outside.