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Swarms of people come flocking up after me, evidently no more able to control their impulse to follow than if they were so many bleating sheep following the tinkling leadership of a bellwether or a goat.
They moaned and reverberated and mingled with the distant music of the bellwether, but his mind was made up irrevocably now; he had determined to do the thing he had come to do. He told himself nothing much mattered any more; he laughed as he rose and wiped the sweat off his face, and passed down Steeperton through debris of granite.
One of the most curious examples of the tendency to follow a bellwether is found in the various pictures called "The Anatomy Lesson."
"So I guess we'll go back inside, and consider the case of the lost jewels further," continued Holmes. And the whole nine of us obligingly trudged after him like sheep after the bellwether, and reëntered the castle.
You bellwether for the plutocracy, to lead reform movements off on a false scent, off into the marshes where they'll be suffocated." She looked at him from head to foot with a withering glance. "No doubt, you'll have what's called a successful career. You'll be their traitor leader for the radicals they want to bring to confusion.
Fitch's function was that of the moderate counsellor and bellwether for new members, hence nothing could have been more fitting than the choice of that gentleman for the honour of moving, on the morrow, that Bill No. 709 ought to pass. Mr. Truesdale reluctantly consented to accept a small "loan" that would help to pay the mortgage on his new press....
Dill, she made him a flourishing and gracious bow. The courteous old gentleman returned it, and was pounced upon by Miss Corny's tongue for his pains. "Whatever possessed you to do that?" "Well, Miss Corny, she spoke to me. You saw her." "I saw her? Yes, I did see her, the brazen bellwether! And she saw me, and spoke to you in her insolence.
Several old ladies forthwith proclaimed their intention of following him; but, as one or two of them were deaf, and another had been threatened with an attack of that mild, but obstinate complaint, dementia senilis, many thought it was not so much the force of his arguments as a kind of tendency to jump as the bellwether jumps, well known in flocks not included in the Christian fold.
That day's gone by. I've got wool on me now like a bellwether, and I'm shaggy at the flanks like a wolf. I can be as mean as a wolf, too, when the time comes. You can't walk up and down over me any more!" "Nobody wants to walk up and down over you!" she protested. "But if you want to put Dr. Slavens off that homestead, go and do it.
Take them aside singly, and open the matter to them. In a few days I shall tell the rest; but the matter will go more fairly, and easily, if we have a proportion of them ready to throw up their caps, and shout." "Aye, aye, Captain Reuben. One bellwether will carry a whole flock after it, but I fear not that any will want to hold back.
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