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'No; but just wait till she speaks! The faded countenance of the woman with the heavy pile of printed propaganda on her arm was so lit with enthusiasm, that it, too, was almost good-looking, in the same way as the younger, more regular face up there, frowning at the people, or the sun, or the memory of wrongs. 'Is Miss Claxton some relation of yours? asked Mrs. Fox-Moore.
She's the one wot carries the dog-whip; and they all craned forward with redoubled interest. It is sad to be obliged to admit that the two ladies did precisely the same. While the boys were, in addition, cat-calling and inquiring about the dog-whip 'That must be the woman the papers have been full of, Mrs. Fox-Moore whispered, staring at the new-comer with horrified eyes.
'Are they there? And it was plain that nothing could more have relieved Mrs. Fox-Moore at that moment than to hear 'they' were not. But Vida, glancing discreetly out of the side window, had said 'There? I should think they are and a crowd round them already.
Devoutly thankful at having escaped from her compromising position unrecognized, Mrs. Fox-Moore firmly declined to go 'awskin' fur the vote' again! When Vida gave up her laughing remonstrance, Mrs. Fox-Moore thought her sister had also given up the idea.
Haven't you heard that they didn't do that until they had exhausted every other means to get a hearing? To the shower of denial and objurgation that greeted this, she said with uplifted hand 'Stop! Let me tell you about it. 'Why, this is a woman of education! What on earth is a person like that doing in this galère? Vida asked, as if Mrs. Fox-Moore might be able to enlighten her.
Fox-Moore. Another turned sharply, 'Look out! Oo yer pushin', old girl? The horrid low creatures seemed to have no sense of deference. And the stuff they smoked! 'Pah! observed Mrs. Fox-Moore, getting the full benefit of a noxious puff. 'Pah! 'Wot! said the smoker, turning angrily. 'Pah to you, miss! He eyed Mrs. Fox-Moore from head to foot with a withering scorn.
'No; mercifully the heart of the country is still sound! But for one of these two out of the orderlier world, the opposition that the 'rank demagogue' roused in the mob was to light a lamp whereby she read wondering the signs of an unsuspected bond between Janet Fox-Moore and the reeking throng.
Fox-Moore, putting out her head again. 'He was struck, said Vida, biting her lip to repress smiles, 'by the hat of the Woman of the People. But the lady was too entirely satisfied with her hat to mind Vida's poking fun at it. "Effingham, the Enemy!" Mrs. Fox-Moore read for herself as they approached the flaunting red banner. 'How perfectly outrageous!
'And who is Miss Mary O'Brian? But the pamphlet-seller had descried a possible customer, and was gone. 'Mary O'Brian, said a blear-eyed old man, 'is the one that's just come out o' quod. 'Oh, thank you. Then to her sister Vida whispered, 'What is quod? But Mrs. Fox-Moore could only shake her head.
'Can't she see even if there were anything in the "Cause," as she calls it what an imbecile waste of time it is talking to these louts? 'There's a good many voters here, said a tall, gloomy-looking individual, wearing a muffler in lieu of a collar. 'She's politician enough to know that. Mrs. Fox-Moore looked through the man.
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