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From across the yard the sunbeam, as it crept up the wall, fell slantingly through the attic window whence issued the sound of hammer-blows. A man with a hard face stood in its light, driving nails into the lid of a soap-box that was partly filled with straw.
If this is done, how can we omit either the filth of the hop-ranch, the cheap gun-talk of the ordinary deputy sheriff, or the unbridled, irresponsible speech of the soap-box orator?
"I know her well," he replied; "she's a model." Just then Miss Anderson in return for his nod gave him a fetching smile. Angela chilled. Elizabeth Stein passed by and he nodded to her. "Who is she?" asked Angela. "She's a socialist agitator and radical. She sometimes speaks from a soap-box on the East Side." Angela studied her carefully.
She also knew not a little about the women of that super-world information sometimes of an intimate nature, which these ladies would have been startled to hear was going the rounds. This insight I got into Claire's world I found useful, needless to say, in my occasional forays as a soap-box orator of Socialism.
This principle, which explains the "opportunism" of Socialist cabinet-ministers and Labour M.P.s may be used to account for the sudden resolve which I had taken, that for this afternoon at least Mrs. Douglas van Tuiver should not discover that I was either a divorced woman, or a soap-box orator of the revolution.
It is no mood of captious, unfriendly criticism that attention is specially directed to these compromises. Only political charlatans, ineffective quacks, and irresponsible soap-box orators see crime against the revolutionary program of the masses in a wise and honest opportunism.
The next thing is to christen the place." Dragging out a soap-box, he mounted it, produced from his pocket a piece of red chalk, and traced in large letters over the door, "CAMP SPURLING." "Now we're off!" said he. "Welcome to our city! Watch us grow!" "Come on!" urged Jim. "We want to look the island over before dark."
Felicia was just beginning to wonder whether entering into the ring would push the melodeon too high, and the auctioneer was impatiently tapping his heel on the soap-box platform, when a clear and deliberate voice remarked: "Two dollars and ten cents." Several heads were turned to see the speaker, and women peeped over their husbands' shoulders to look.
"Oh, go to hell!" the mason called after him, resuming his seat on the soap-box and relighting his pipe. Adelle, before she followed her husband, said to her new-found cousin in a tone clear enough to reach Archie's ears, "Of course you are not discharged. I am very sorry for this." "That's all right," the mason replied. "I don't worry about him."
Pethick-Lawrence and militant extravagances soon became too much for her. There were intelligent women galore, women of the aristocracy born with a certain style, and showing their breeding even on the soap-box, but sexually attractive women never, and even the youngest seemed to have been born without the bloom of youth. The significance of this, however, works both ways.
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