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She looked up quietly and her eyes met Delia's; in hers a steely ardour, in Delia's a certain trouble. "Well, we want some cheering up," said the girl, rather wearily. "Those two last meetings were pretty depressing! and so were the bye-elections." She was thinking of the two open-air meetings at Brownmouth and Frimpton.
"So you will take these four meetings?" "Certainly!" Delia sprang up. "What are they? One at Latchford, one at Brownmouth Wanchester and Frimpton. All right. I shall be pelted at Brownmouth. But rotten eggs don't matter so much when you're looking out for them except on your face Ugh!" "And the meeting here?" "Of course. Can't I do what I like with my own house?
That would tame the anguish in her, and some day she would be strong again and come back to those beloved ones who had given her up so tenderly. The whole of Maumsey and its neighbourhood had indeed been thrown into excitement by certain placards on the walls announcing three public meetings to be held a fortnight later by the "Daughters of Revolt" at Latchford, Brownmouth, and Frimpton.
Latchford was but fifteen miles from Maumsey, and frequent trains ran between them. Brownmouth and Frimpton, also, were within easy distance by rail, and the Maumseyites were accustomed to shop at either.
The police were kept hard at work protecting open-air meetings on the Brownmouth and Frimpton beaches, from an angry populace who desired to break them up; every unknown woman who approached a village or strolled into a village church, was immediately noticed, immediately reported on, by hungry eyes and tongues alert for catastrophe; and every empty house had become an anxiety to its owners.
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