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Updated: May 11, 2025
Never before had there been such an uproar heard in Fardale Academy, and the commotion had brought Professor Gunn and his two principal assistants, Professor Jenks and Professor Scotch, from their rooms on the floor below the "Cockloft." "What can be the meaning of this outrageous hub-bub?" cried Professor Jenks, who, on account of his exceeding height, was known as "High Jinks."
Not so; when the hub-bub of his sordid accusers dies away, he is conscious of another summons, before a tribunal which he cannot despise or ignore. For once more the poet's equivocal position exposes him to attacks from all quarters. He stands midway between the spiritual and the physical worlds, he reveals the ideal in the sensual.
The hands and feet hung loosely down; the neck and skull were thrown backward and reclined half over the tire of the wheel. Large black birds swept slowly round and round, and though startled by the approaching hub-bub were not scared away. It never so much as entered into pretty Michal's mind what this strange object could be, she had absolutely no name for it.
The best and purest had died thus. The jury had been out but a few moments, when a great hub-bub arose without, and voices could be heard crying: "Wait! wait! stay your verdict!" A crowd of men rushed into the court room with a tall young man, whose weather-beaten face indicated a seafaring life, at the head of them.
But for some reason I lacked the power of concentration, or perhaps more properly speaking the power of initiative. I laid it to the hub-bub created by the final effort of the workmen to finish the job of repairing my castle before cold weather set in. "That isn't it, Mr. Smart," said my secretary darkly. We were in the study and my pad of paper was lying idly on my knees.
I can assure you, Miss Carvel," added Stephen, speaking with a force which made her start and thrill, "I can assure you from a personal knowledge of the German troops that they are not a riotous lot, and that they are under perfect control. If they were not, there are enough regulars in the city to repress them." He paused. And she was silent, forgetful of the hub-bub around her.
The rougher elements amongst Ikey's Own sought a scape-goat. They found him in Joses. Chukkers came out of the weighing-room and deliberately struck the fat man. That started it: the crowd did the rest. Old Mat and Jim Silver waited on the outskirts of the hub-bub. The American Ambassador and his tall dark daughter stood near by. "What stories they tell," said the great man in his gentle way.
"Just wait 'till I finish, will you," cried Kittie, as the hat maintained perfect silence, "Kat didn't do it, but she heard that I did, and that I was going to be whipped, so she took my seat and jumped up the minute Miss Howard spoke, and the only way I found out was when Miss Howard said, 'Now Kittie you must beg Susie's pardon before the school. Then I knew something was up, and just popped right out of my seat and said that that was Kat, not me, and didn't it make a hub-bub, and didn't Miss Howard look funny!"
The tumult, the rush of business, the intersecting cross-town traffic, the hub-bub of the great city, dazed his slow brain. The hurricane deck of a bronco had no terrors for him, but this wild charge through the humming trenches shook his nerve. "I come mighty nigh askin' you would you just as lief drive slower," he said with a grin to the chauffeur as he descended to the safety of the sidewalk.
"And I," said Herr von Rochow, "will forthwith dispatch a courier to Spandow, to tell my lieutenant that he must send the commissioner out of the fort, and tell the garrison that they are put on summer allowance. It will stir up a fine hub-bub, I am sure of that." "I, too, believe that the end will not be perfect peace," said the Stadtholder, smiling.
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