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As an unprejudiced observer of the fight that was destined to shake Brockley to its very depths, to set the blameless citizens at each other's throats, to divide families, and in one case (when the engagement of a certain A. M. and B. Y. was broken off in consequence) to alter the very destinies of the human race -- an unprejudiced observer, I repeat, of Sir Harry Tanneur's attempt to purge Brockley of the foreign yoke -- I quote the _Lewisham and Lee Mail_ -- I am free to confess that the honours lay with the ducal party.
This _L. & L. Mail_ -- Hank invariably and wickedly introduced aspirates into the abbreviation -- was remarkably outspoken.