He read in it only a witness to the dangers of the course on which the House has entered, and to its unfitness for the office which it has rashly chosen to assume.” He might also have read in it, if he had liked, the exquisite delight of the first stroke of revenge for Midlothian.
Morley interprets a situation as a warning about the House's unfitness for its chosen role and hints at a sense of vindication.
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