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"My orders is as follows: Git him there by seving! It wants a quarter to seving. Stand out of the way!" "But, sir," exclaimed the committee-man, seizing the off-leader by the reins, "Mr. Monk, we are come to escort him into town! Look at the procession, sir, and the brass-band, and the people, and the young women, sir!" "I've got my orders!" screamed Mr. Monk.
'I wish to see some member of the committee. I am Mrs. Mutimer. There was a coarse laugh from some fellows, but others cried, 'Shut up! she's a lady. One stepped forward and announced himself as a committee-man. He followed her into the passage. 'My husband cannot come, she said. 'Will you please show me where I can speak to the meeting and tell them the reason of his absence?
But oh, they are termagants in conjunction! like fiddlers who are rogues when they go single, and joined in consort, gentlemen musicianers. I care not much if I untwist my committee-man, and so give him the receipt of this grand Catholicon.
Dam-a Democrat!" "That's it," replied the committee-man somewhat languidly. "You see, this is a Republican precinct, and it turns the ward " "Allaways a Republican!" vociferated Pietro. "That eesa right?" "Well," said the other, "of course, whichever way you go, you want to follow your precinct committee-man that's me." "Yess! Vote a Republican."
Why did Hannah stop? It was certainly bold, doubtless it was half-unconscious, but stop she did, and a committee-man, wheeling suddenly, caught Smith, dashed through the preliminaries, and the Sophomore had added Hannah Grant Daly to the list of his acquaintances.
"Republican Republican eternall!" Pixley, when the committee-man called upon Toby and his friends at their apartment one evening, a fortnight later. "That's right," he responded languidly. "That's right in gineral, I should say. Cert'nly, in gineral, I ain't got no quarrel with no man's Republicanism. But this here's kind of a put-tickler case, boys. The election's liable to be mighty close."
You must believe it; you wrong yourselves if you refuse to. To-morrow, no doubt, he will come and speak for himself. Till then I beg you to take the worthy part and credit good rather than evil. She ceased, and, turning to the committee-man, who still stood near her, requested him to guide her from the room.
Much amazed, the committee-man led her into the hall. It was whitewashed, furnished with plain benches, lit with a few gas-jets. There was scarcely room to move for the crowd. Every man seemed to be talking at the pitch of his voice. The effect was an angry roar. Adela's guide with difficulty made a passage for her to the platform, for it took some time before the crowd realised what was going on.
Whatever it is, it is within his desert, for what is observed of some creatures that at the same time they trade in productions three stories high, suckling the first, big with the second, and clicketing for the third: a committee-man is the counterpoint, his mischief is superfoetation, a certain scale of destruction, for he ruins the father, beggars the son, and strangles the hope of all posterity.
Before the next meeting he and the minister involved would get together and discover a means of putting inconvenient questioners off the scent. The committee took their seats. The chairman now spoke in his smoothest tone, his manner was genial and urbane. He smiled towards Mr. Small, the recalcitrant committee-man, as he glanced at the notes under his hand prepared by Tarleton.
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