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"There be many of them," answered Cherry, still speaking in a very low and rapid whisper. "But breathe not a word at home, for father says they be surely in league with the devil, if they be not impostors who deserve whipping at the cart's tail.
It was the cart which had told against him, it was the cart's place to protect him. At the moment when the sergeant was on the point of making his descent on Gavroche, the cart, converted into a projectile and launched with all the latter's might, rolled down upon him furiously, and the sergeant, struck full in the stomach, tumbled over backwards into the gutter while his gun went off in the air.
The lady long since had ceased to concern herself with the outward shapes of things; she accepted this possibility of carrying out her plans, and they lifted her light figure to the chair, in the cart's end, while Peter mounted before her with all a coachman's dignity, he once had his ambitions of being her coachman, and they moved slowly away through the deep sand.
Oh, patther an' ave you dirty bosthoon blessed angels and holy marthyrs! kneelin' there in the middle o' the flure as if nothing happened look down on me this day, a poor vartuous dissolute woman! Oh, you disgrace to me and all belonging to you, and is it the impidence to ask my blessin' you have, when it's a whippin' at the cart's tail you ought to get, you shameless scapegrace?"
Oh, my lord, can you pretend that you have forgotten poor, trusting Amelia, of Woodbine Cottage at Lichfield." "I never set foot in Lichfield in my life!" cried the peer. "You are two impostors who should be whipped at the cart's tail." "Oh, wicked! Oh, Amelia!" screamed the lady, in a voice that resounded through the Gardens.
Some half dozen were made prisoners by the guard; and amongst these, we regret to state, was the leader of the riotous assembly, Dick Taverner. "Thou art likely to make acquaintance with the pillory and the cart's tail, if not with the hangman, friend," said the soldier who secured him, with a laugh. "So I begin to fear," replied Dick. "Alack! and well-a-day! what will become of Gillian!"
It slandered him as a man while it decried him as an author, and accused him, by innuendo, of "laboring under the infamy of having, by the vilest and meanest actions, forfeited all pretensions to honor and honesty," and of practicing "those acts which bring the sharper to the cart's tail or the pillory."
The clergyman's Wednesday evening Lectures on Justification by Faith are publishing there by subscription I'm down on the list. The doctor's wife only put a shilling in the plate at our last charity sermon I put half-a-crown. Mr. Churchwarden Soward held the plate, and bowed to me. Ten years ago he told Pigrum the chemist I ought to be whipped out of the town at the cart's tail.
The burden of his thoughts seemed to be a blending of denunciation and exultation. The predictions of the four Quakers executed many years before on Boston common, and those of men and women who had been whipped at the cart's tail through the towns of the colony, evidently seemed to him in progress of fulfillment:
"We shall not be able to give you much warning, for we must wait a favorable wind and tide." "So you let me know by nightfall, it will do." "And now for the last point what do I pay you? I know we are asking you to run a great risk. The men that whip gentlewomen, at the cart's tail, and put little children into jail, and sell them as slaves, will not spare you, if they find out what you have done.
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