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"Things are going well with us, it seems." Now again they had to go outside, and the reading over of names began once more. This time the standing-orders were given out, and during this performance their captain came into the barrack-yard.
Consider, first, the complicated sets of changes that precede the making of every railway the provisional arrangements, the meetings, the registration, the trial section, the parliamentary survey, the lithographed plans, the books of reference, the local deposits and notices, the application to Parliament, the passing Standing-Orders Committee, the first, second, and third readings: each of which brief heads indicates a multiplicity of transactions, and the development of sundry occupations as those of engineers, surveyors, lithographers, parliamentary agents, share-brokers; and the creation of sundry others as those of traffic-takers, reference-takers.
Even if it were not certain death to attempt it, one might as well try to fly, as to quench that furnace with jugs and chatties of water. Bowls. There was nothing to be done. Every man who could use a rifle was at loophole or embrasure, ammunition was plentiful, all non-combatants were hidden. Every one understood the standing-orders in case of such an emergency.... The gate was on fire.
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