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The sermon a noble one, searching and eloquent was but a persistent sound in that ear, though, now and then, Penrod's attention would be caught by some detached portion of a sentence, when his mind would dwell dully upon the phrases for a little while and lapse into a torpor.
He extended the middle finger of his left hand and Penrod promptly seized it, but did not twist it, for he was instantly swung round with his back to his amiable new acquaintance: Rupe's right hand operated upon the back of Penrod's slender neck; Rupe's knee tortured the small of Penrod's back. "OW!" Penrod bent far forward involuntarily and went to his knees again.
There Penrod's widening eyes remained transfixed upon the horn, so dazzling, with its broad spaces of brassy highlights, and so overwhelming, with its mouth as wide as a tub; that there was something almost threatening about it.
The effect of music, too, upon children is incalculable, especially when they do not hear it often and both a snare-drum and a bass drum were in the expensive orchestra at the Rennsdale party. Nevertheless, the outlawry at any party may remain incipient unless a chieftain appears; but in Penrod's corner were now gathering into one anarchical mood all the necessary qualifications for leadership.
When she had suggested this cleansing as a pleasant means of passing the time, she assumed that it would take place in a washtub in the cellar; and Penrod's location of the performance in her own bathroom was far from her intention.
Georgie also managed to convey another reason for his refusal of Penrod's companionship, the visitor being conversant with lip-reading through his studies at the "movies." Penrod went home. "Well," Mrs. Schofield said, having almost exhausted a mother's powers of suggestion, "well, why don't you give Duke a bath?" She was that far depleted when Penrod came to her the third time.
I expect he wants more to eat." "Well, we got to fix about that," said Penrod. "But what I mean if I'd had to stay in the house, where would we been about the most important thing in the whole biz'nuss?" "What you talkin' about?" "Well, why can't you wait till I tell you?" Penrod's tone had become peevish.
He was late to school, and at once found himself in difficulties. Government demanded an explanation of the tardiness; but Penrod made no reply of any kind. Taciturnity is seldom more strikingly out of place than under such circumstances, and the penalties imposed took account not only of Penrod's tardiness but of his supposititious defiance of authority in declining to speak.
Sam had a premonition that something even more painful than Penrod's knuckle was going to be inflicted upon him. "THAT don' hurt," said Penrod, pushing him away. "Yes, it does, too!" Sam rubbed his temple. "Puh! It didn't hurt me, did it, Rupie? Come on in, Rupe: show this baby where he's got a wart on his finger." "You showed me that trick," Sam objected. "You already did that to me.
Here and there people were to be seen upon the sidewalks, but they were adults, and they and the shade trees had about the same quality of significance in Penrod's consciousness.
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