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The specialists of the day jeered at him, of course, as the specialists in Goethe's time jeered at the plant-metamorphosis. As far as I can make out, the anatomists and zoologists were down on Dr. Anson to a man; that was why his cowardly publishers went back on their bargain.
"A case of nothing struck, if I had!" uttered Captain Jack, bitterly. "Oh, yes! You would have struck at our chances of winning out in these submarine tests," murmured Hal Hastings. "What do you mean?" demanded Jack, looking startled. "If you had hit Radwin, in the presence of all those witnesses, you would have been right in line to be arrested for assault." "Pooh!" jeered Captain Jack.
"The propaganda against him had been so insidious and successful, however," my informant concluded, "that even his own soldiers were convinced that he had sold out to Austria and when the King attempted to rally them as they were falling back from the positions on Mount Lovtchen they jeered in his face, shouting that he had betrayed them.
March!" King ordered, and the little procession started. "Oh, men of the 'Hills, ye look like ghosts like graveyard ghosts!" jeered Courtenay, as they all filed past him. "Ye look like dead men, going to be judged!" Nobody answered.
They jeered him insults, they mimicked his tenor voice, which excitement had rendered shrill, and they bade him go thrum a lute for his lady's delectation, and leave men's work to men. His anger rose, and they lost patience; and from showing their teeth in laughter, they began to show them in snarls. At this his ferocity deserted him.
But Lemuel the youngest, who had outgrown his strength, had made a deplorable "put," and the rest jeered at him, to relieve their feelings. The boy fired up. "Oh, have your laugh!" he blazed, with angry tears in his eyes. "But when it comes to running, there's not one of you but knows I can put circles round him." "Take you on, this moment," answered up young Increase.
And so they said of all things; to which nobody made any answer, they going there not out of love or esteem of them, but to eat his victuals, knowing him to be a niggardly fellow; and with this he is jeered now all over the country. This day just before dinner comes Captain Story, of Cambridge, to me to the office, about a bill for prest money,
"Ah, yes, I heard Lenny had taken himself off to the Casino, more fool he; but, bless your heart, 't is no distance, two miles or so. Can't he come home every night after work?" "No, sir," exclaimed the widow, almost fiercely; "he sha'n't come home here, to be called bad names and jeered at! he whom my dead good man was so fond and proud of.
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