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Not husbands and wives and children, not war, nor even courage; not books nor pictures; nothing of this. No; they were wearing their souls out clamouring for a Vote!" We sat very still. You could have heard a pin drop. "There was Gladys. She was only nineteen, and ought to have been helping her mother at home; but no, she was emancipated, as she called it.
The paper had declared that those directors had juggled a twenty-million dollar surplus for years, lending it to one another at a low rate of interest, until, alarmed by clamouring stockholders, they had declared this enormous dividend, taking first, however, the precaution to buy for a low price all the stock they could.
The fog of Edward's bewilderment never cleared, and the unformed question was ever clamouring for an answer how had it happened? Job's cry. How had it happened to an honest and virtuous man, the days of whose forebears had been long in the land which the Lord their God had given them?
Here were a hundred, two hundred women crowded, clamouring questions all at once. They swarmed about the marshal, the superintendent, the other bosses even about Hal, crying hysterically in Polish and Bohemian and Greek. When Hal shook his head, indicating that he did not understand them, they moaned in anguish, or shrieked aloud.
In a month he will have tired of it, and be clamouring to do something else." "I shall be very disappointed in him if he does," she said. "I will tell him that," I said, "it may help. People don't like other people to be disappointed in them." "I would rather you didn't," she said. "You could say that father will be disappointed in him. Father formed rather a good opinion of him, I know."
And no calling out, and no pretending they have got a pain in their tummy and creeping downstairs in their night-shirts and clamouring for brandy. We will be up to all their tricks." "And they'll have to take their medicine," Veronica remembered. "The slightest suggestion of sulkiness, the first intimation that they are not enjoying themselves, will mean cod liver oil in a tablespoon, Veronica."
The culinary realm is always busily engaged preparing patés and galantines, rillettes and sausages. "For our boys," is the answer almost before the question is put. "They're so glad to get home-made dainties, and are always clamouring for more no matter how much you send! "Since they must eat preserved food, we might as well send them something we make ourselves, then we're sure it's the best.
Then, when in the thirteenth century those vast multitudes of soldiers, monks, dreamers, beggars, and adventurers came to her, the port for Palestine, clamouring for transports, she was sceptical and even scornful of them, but willing to give them what they demanded, not for the love of God but for a price.
'But sir the supper! gasped Leonard, leaning against the door-post, unable to stand alone. 'I dare say. Keep him safe, Ethel. And the Doctor shut the door, and offered himself to appease the lads who were clamouring for the hero of their cause; while Leonard sank back on the bench, past words or looks for some moments.
That, however, was quite sufficient; for it did him so much good that not only did he come to my hut clamouring for more, but brought several fellow-sufferers with him, with the result that before the week was out I had firmly established my reputation as a powerful witch-doctor.
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