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We're late, of course the meeting's begun. I say, just look at this!" For Manx Road, as they turned into it, was already held by another big meeting of its own. The room in the Board school which crossed the end of the street must be full, and this crowd represented, apparently, those who had been turned away.
"What time do they dine, Anderson?" Malcolm put the question with some indifference he knew quite well what the answer would be. "Why, you see, Mr. Malcolm, it is past six now," returned Anderson apologetically, "and the meeting's for eight, and the mistress said there would be no time for dinner as the committee would not break up until seven, so she will have a cup of tea and a sandwich."
The earth answered with a sudden white smile, for the moon had just risen above the distant woods. At the stile where the footpath from the tent ended, Abbott paused. Why should he go farther? This scoffer, the one false note in the meeting's harmony, had been silenced. "There," he said, showing the road. His tone was final. It meant, "Depart." Fran spoke in a choking voice, "I'm afraid."
"The colonel wished to see you, justice, and ask you if you had any objection to the meeting's being put off from one o'clock till two," cried he, after nodding to Mr. Carlyle. "He has got a friend coming to see him unexpectedly who will leave again by the two o'clock train." "I don't care which it is," answered Mr. Hare. "Two o'clock will do as well as one, for me."
'Well, stop a moment, for even at this slowest gait the brougham had passed the storm centre. The lady hanging out of the window looked back and saw that Ernestine's face, very pink as to cheeks, very bright as to eyes, was turned quite unruffled on the rabble. 'Can't you see the meeting's over? she called out. 'You boys go home now and think about what we've told you.
"Yes....He's the chairman of the School Board." "Ah!" murmured Fran comprehendingly. At Gregory's gate, she said, "Now you run back to the tent and I'll beard the lion by myself. I know it has sharp teeth, but I guess it won't bite me. Do try to get back to the tent before the meeting's over. Show yourself there. Parade up and down the aisles."
"Very good, Jim; Cricketty Hall, and Friday night, that's where and when the meeting's to be. It means next Friday no doubt, for Levi Sharples won't stay in this neighbourhood a moment longer than he can help. You may depend upon it, when these two meet at the old ruin, Levi'll have some of their old mates not far-off, and there'll be wild work with poor William when they've got the opportunity.
Their disdain is for those men Who care not for their own good names. "Noon has come, the meeting's sure. Hearts of wind love not the battle; As though they had no fear of the violins, Which are on the knees of painted women Arab women, who were not fed on sheep's milk; There is but camel's milk in all their land.
Had she perceived this meeting's import she might have asked why she was doomed to be seen and coveted that day by the wrong man, and not by some other man, the right and desired one in all respects as nearly as humanity can supply the right and desired; yet to him who amongst her acquaintance might have approximated to this kind, she was but a transient impression, half forgotten.
"If we've decided everything we have to decide this meeting's adjourned," and without further formal procedure Gyp summarily brought to an end the first meeting of the Ravens.