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Gordon felt the crowd's reaction twist again, and he had to admit that Wayne had played his cards well. But it didn't make the question of where he belonged, or what he should do, any easier. He waited until the crowd had thinned out a little and began heading toward Corey's, with Izzy moving along silently beside him, carrying half the packages.
"That there train ain't goin' to wait a minute," reminded Amos, civilly. The Colonel turned upon him with a large sweetness of manner. "Ah, yes, my friend, but trains will be passing through your pretty little hamlet for years I hope for ages yet. They pass every day, but you can't have Jonas Rodney Potts every day." Here, with a gesture, he directed the crowd's attention to Amos.
To survey the field of the novel as a mere pleasure-garden marked out for the crowd's diversion a field of recreation adorned here and there by the masterpieces of a few great men argues in the modern critic either an academical attitude to literature and life, or a one-eyed obtuseness, or merely the usual insensitive taste.
"She says Carew I don't think you've seen him is anxious to marry her, and if she's convinced that I'm getting on satisfactorily, she'll probably agree. He's I'm quoting about as good as she's likely to get; that's Bella all over." "What's he like?" Lisle asked with interest. "To tell the truth, in one way I think she's right the man's straight; not the Marple crowd's style.
An excited murmur traveled about the courtroom, and the judge picked up his gavel to suppress threatened applause. There could be no doubt as to the way popular opinion tended in this trial. Though the applause was stopped before it began, one could feel the crowd's animus against the prisoner no less than if they had shouted "Hang him!" with one voice.
The old crowd's there Ben Brimmer and Martin Sayles and Mordaunt and Mack and Barden. I've chartered the Arethusa, and invited 'em to spend a month with me along the New England coast. We're not having a time of it oh no! or my name isn't Chauncey Pike!" His eyes dwelt curiously on the details of Percy's costume and occupation. "What you masquerading for? Hiding from the sheriff?"
"We're to start just as soon as we get the boys together," said the Major, shaking hands. "The crowd's to be at Andrews' by four, and it's fully that now; so come on at once. We'll go 'round by Munson's and have Hi send a boy to look after your horse. Come; I want to introduce my friend here to you, and we'll all want to smoke and jabber a little in appropriate seclusion. Come on."
He rushed in to close quarters aiming a stinging blow at Billy's face, and then to Cassidy's chagrin and the crowd's wonder, the mucker lowered his guard and took the wallop full on the jaw. The blow seemed never to jar him the least. The "hope" swung again, and there stood Billy Byrne, like a huge bronze statue taking blow after blow that would have put an ordinary man down for the count.
As they had closed in the moment of swooning, so and with the same look of horror they awoke as the lids parted. But they saw nothing; neither the sunlight dappling the maple shadows nor the curious faces of the crowd. She felt the sunlight; the crowd's presence she felt not at all.
To this extent, the crowd-spirit has you in its grasp. Yet in spite of all this, you are now released from that crowd's tyrannically overwhelming consciousness as you never were before. You feel yourself now a separate vivid entity, a real, whole man: dependent on the Whole, and gladly so dependent, yet within that Whole a free self-governing thing.
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