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Excerpt from The Fall of Lord Paddockslea
George Stukeley and Robert Forbes were Liberal members of Parliament, but not of the conventional type - neither coal-owners, cotton-spinners, stockbrokers, company promoters, nor merchants of tea, butter or soap, nor was either of them a lawyer, journalist or professional politician. They were young country gentlemen of easy fortune, belonging to Whig families of some historical repute.
It was on a midsummer night towards the close of the nineteenth century they met on the steps of a venerable club, across whose sacrosanct threshold no vulgar thing of the City - broker, jobber or attorney - was every suffered to intrude.
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