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Updated: May 22, 2025
When I was a boy I was a passionate atheist, I defied God, and so far as God is the mere sanction of social traditions and pressures, a mere dressing up of the crowd's will in canonicals, I do still deny him and repudiate him. That God I heard of first from my nursemaid, and in very truth he is the proper God of all the nursemaids of mankind.
As soon as the interest aroused by the appearance of the members of the Council of War had died down the crowd's attention was concentrated on the hero of this sensational adventure: his doings had been the one prevailing topic of conversation during the past few days. Jérôme Fandor, modest, reserved, appeared indifferent to the mute questioning of the hundreds of eyes focussed on him.
"Ach, you leedle Grasshobber, fifty dollars for your trip, and then you don't fly excepd in mit der hogs," he exclaimed, shaking his fist at the inanimate wreck of his craft. A loud report of a gun brought the crowd's attention from this scene, which they had watched from a respectful distance, back to the aviation grounds. It was the warning gun. In ten minutes the big race would start. "Bang!"
There 'Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, were the summer retreats of Rome's brightest and most enduring spirits.
Why, they would have to hire a shed out in the suburbs of Albany for a headquarters, unless the Democratic National Committee put up for the campaign expenses. Tammany's got the votes and the cash. The Hill crowd's only got hot air. You hear a lot of talk about the Tammany district leaders bein' illiterate men. If illiterate means havin' common sense, we plead guilty.
That crowd's as law-abiding as a cow, and if it weren't, it's on our side." "How do you know?" asked the professor, staring. "You blind bat," cried Bull, "don't you see who is leading them?" They peered again, and then the Colonel, with a catch in his voice, cried out "Why, it's Renard!"
The hue and cry was after him; the tumult of a crowd's excitement, raised it knows not why or wherefore, was on his steps, joined with the steadier and keener pursuit of men organized for the hunter's work, and trained to follow the faintest track, the slightest clew.
"And if they come up here huntin' us when we show up no more?" yelled the same big Irishman who had paid his respects to Vorse. "In that case, tear their heads off," was the reply. "But put on your gloves first or you'll dirty your fingers." Which bit of rough humor caught the crowd's fancy and won a roar of laughter.
I'm bringing something straight in my mouth and something crooked in my mit, and neither one of 'em will ye have till free passage is made to the platform." The crowd's curiosity served effectively to clear that passage. Lanigan's captive went along, sullenly unresisting.
"You 'll get a little embarrassment out of it yourself before you get through!" Rodaine was scowling at him. Again Anita Richmond caught his arm. "Maurice! Stop it! How could the thing have been premeditated when he did n't even know your father? Come let's go on. The crowd's getting thicker."
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