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On the high dais the Speaker, white but imperturbable, having broken his gavel, beat steadily with the handle of an umbrella upon the square of marble on his desk. Fifteen or twenty members, raging dementedly, were beneath him, about the clerk's desk and on the steps leading up to his chair, each howling hoarsely: "A point of order! A point of or-der!"
The over-fraught bosoms of the background found relief in a roar of laughter. "OR-DER!" cried the little man. "CHEER!" And after that second word, came forth from his mug no more. Several other clubs signed, and received their money.
Secure upon her height, with her head near the open transom of the back room. Miss Mehitable began to sing. "Araminta Lee is a bad, un-grate-ful girl," she warbled, to a tune the like of which no mortal had ever heard before. "She fell off of a step-lad-der, and sprained her an-kle, and the play-doc-tor said it was broke in or-der to get more mon-ey, breaks being more val-u-able than sprains.
Or-der for the speech!" Mrs Bosenna, recognising the champion in spite of his blushes, collected her courage, smiled, and said "Why, 'tis Walter Sobey!" "Servant, ma'am!" Mr Sobey touched his forelock again and grinned, as who should add, "You and me, ma'am, meets in strange places." "Well, I never! . . . How things do turn out!"
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