Chapter 23
THE FREEDOM OF THE PRESS. But all this while, my slavery to Mr. O'Flynn's party-spirit and coarseness was becoming daily more and more intolerable--an explosion was inevitable; and an explosion came. Mr. O'Flynn found out that I had been staying at Cambridge, and at a cathedral city too; and it was quite a godsend to him to find any one who knew a word about the institutions at which he had been railing weekly for years. So nothing would serve him but my writing a set of articles on the universities, as a prelude to one on the Cathedral Establishments. In vain I pleaded the shortness of my stay there, and the smallness of my information. "Och, were not abuses notorious? And couldn't I get them up out of any Radical paper--and just put in a little of my own observations, and a dashing pe
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