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Dennison glanced keenly from one to the other; Flynn shrugged his shoulders and looked out of the window. "Looks as if it was clearing up," he remarked. "What are you going to do?" asked Nellie Stone again, with a coquettish flirt of her blond fluff of hair. "Grin and bear it, I s'pose," replied the young laster, with an adoring look at her.
Nellie Stone was at the desk eating her luncheon; Ed Flynn and Dennison and one of the lasters, who had looked in and then stepped in when he saw Lloyd was gone, were there. The laster, who was young and coarsely handsome, had an admiration for the pretty girl at the desk. Presently she addressed him, with her mouth full of apple-pie. "Say, George, what are you fellows going to do?" she asked.
"I cannot help writing a sort of apology for my laster letter, foreseeing that you will think it wrong, or at least Lord Bute will be extremely shocked at the proposal of a learned education for daughters, which the generality of men believe as great a profanation as the clergy would do if the laity should presume to exercise the functions of the priesthood.
The laster glared from one to the other jealously. Dennison went towards a shelf where he had stored away his luncheon, when he stopped suddenly and listened, as did the others. There came a great uproar of applause from the next room beyond. Then it subsided, and a girl's clear, loud voice was heard. "What is going on?" cried Nellie Stone.
Then the monster sank and could be seen swimming back, just under the surface of the water, getting ready to renew the attack. "He's going to ram us again!" cried Mr. Damon. "Bless my machine oil! Why doesn't the captain do something?" At that moment the commander cried from the bridge: "Send a man below, Mr. Laster, to see if we are making any water.
He felt that he would almost have given her up, yielded up forever all his delight in her, to spare her; for the pain of knighthood, which is in every true lover, awoke in his heart. Nahum Beals was a laster in Lloyd's. Late in the autumn, when Ellen had been in the factory a little over a year, there began to be a subtle condition of discontent and insubordination.
The most distant satellite of Mars is known to us as Laster, to which has been given the name of Deimos by the first observers on your Earth.
"It's easy for a man who's got nobody dependent upon him to talk," cried Abby. "I won't give up!" cried Dixon, looking straight at Ellen, and ignoring Abby. "That's so," said Lee. "We don't give up our rights for bosses, or bosses' misses." As he said that there was a concerted movement of Andrew, the laster, and Granville.
There were very few left in the factory. Among them were John Sargent, the laster who was a deacon and had formed one of the consulting committee, Sadie Peel, who wanted her nearseal cape, and Mamie Brady, who would do nothing which she thought would displease the foreman, Flynn. "If father's mind to be such a fool, it's no reason why I should," said Sadie Peel, stitching determinedly away.
Tom Peel stood for a second like an automaton, staring at them both. Then he turned back to his post. "I'm with ye," he said. The lasters, for some occult reason, were always the most turbulent element in Lloyd's. In less than three minutes the enthusiasm of revolt had spread, and every laster had left his machine. In a half-hour more there was an exodus of workmen from Lloyd's.
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