Although a million new and critical policy questions almost immediately had to be undertaken by the nascent Noete government, each demanding priority over every other, only a week passed before the coalition, precariously mixed, separated itself. The major party had instigated a policy of speling riform, you see, against which some conservative partners rebelled first in growls and then in roars, in proportion to the hisses and shrieks concentred on them by the Cabinet. The reactionaries, whose children were growing up speaking Old Noeto-Cambric and writing the sacred characters with aardvark brushes and lampblack, went with the Cabinet only until it was clear, for the sake of general education, that the Imperial script would not be made a damnatio memoriae.
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