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'Ar-re ye guilty or not guilty? says th' clerk. 'Guilty an' glad iv it, says ye'er lawyer amid cheers an' hisses. 'Have ye th' watch with ye? says th' coort. 'I have, says th' pris'ner, smilin' in his peculiar way. 'Lave me look at it, says th' coort. 'I will not, says the pris'ner, puttin' it back into his pocket. 'How ar-re ye goin' to defind this crook? says th' Judge.
This fellow's evolutions, and the little prologue, in which the showman made a humorous eulogium of his troop, praising their indifference to applause and hisses, and their single devotion to their art, were the only circumstances in the whole affair that you could fancy would so much as raise a smile. But the villagers of Precy seemed delighted.
The clouds settle right down onto the mast-head, black and thick, like the settlin's of an ink-bottle; the lightnin' hisses an' cuts fore and aft; and corposants come flightin' down onto the boom or the top, gret balls o' light; and the wind roars louder than the seas; and the rain comes down in spouts, it don't fall fur enough to drop; you'd think heaven and earth was come together, with hell betwixt 'em; and then it'll all clear up as quiet and calm as a Simsbury Sunday; and you wouldn't know it could be squally, if 'twan't for the sail that you hadn't had a chance to furl was drove to ribbons, and here an' there a stout spar snapped like a cornstalk, or the bulwarks stove by a heavy sea.
He looked closely again. There was no doubt of it she was eight years old! In an instant he knew his heart sank, "We're robbed, Cap'n Tom Shiloh my God!" Travis drove smilingly back, amid hisses and cheers and the fluttering of ladies' handkerchiefs in the boxes. "How about the gloves and candy now?" he called to them with his cap in his hand.
Shall not her life of unselfishness and good deeds be put against this one insane act of her old age? Go back to your homes! Some of you are my friends, some my neighbors I ask you for her but a fair trial before the law." They listened for a moment and then burst into jeers, hoots, and hisses: "Hang her, now! That's the way all lawyers talk!"
They also saw, amidst this terrible fire, which filled the air with whistling hisses, officers handling the shovel, soldiers rolling barrows, and vast fascines, rising by being either carried or dragged by from ten to twenty men, cover the front of the trench reopened to the center by this extraordinary effort of the general. In three hours, all was reinstated.
With the truculent Jacobins ready to close battle should the government do its duty, with the country still echoing to cheers for Fremont and hisses for the President, with nothing to his credit in the way of military success, Lincoln faced a crisis. He was carried through the crisis by two strong men. Sumner, head and front of Abolitionism but also a great lawyer, came at once to his assistance.
I, however, refrain from hostility to their cause owing to my friendship for him, and yet I cannot approve, lest I should stultify my own past. The feeling of the people was shewn as clearly as possible in the theatre and at the shows. For at the gladiators both master and supporters were overwhelmed with hisses.
Mark by this time is also frothing at the mouth; and, standing in a bellicose attitude, hisses: "I says 'beggared a one. Roger's not the man!" Rush becomes speechless, and his eyes flash with anger, and he flings the Englishman at Mark, who in turn calls his friend, "Coward; that's the only argument you have. I tell you again, Roger's not the man!"
I was conscious at the moment only of a wild relief and joy in letting myself go, feelings heightened by the clapping and cheers with which my characterizations were received. The fact that the cheers were mingled with hisses merely served to drive me on.
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