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Updated: May 14, 2025
But courage, the right, hatred of the foreigner, the yearning for vengeance, were to take the place of more perfect engines, and to replace at least it was hoped so the modern mitrailleuses and breech-loaders. The troops were passed in review. Not a citizen failed at the roll-call.
During the sixth roll-call sixty messages came in, and a rickety little representative, with a beard like a goat and terror tugging at his heart, arose and changed his vote to Mr. Frost. The rickety little man had been for Mr. Hawke, and this sudden turning of his coat provoked a tempest of cheers from the Frosts and maledictions from the Hawkes.
So the doctor he said, says he, `Lads, I'll send ye a bottle o' stuff as'll put ye right. An' sure enough down comes the bottle that night when we was smokin' our pipes just afther roll-call.
"Mother!" he cried, from the top of the stair, meaning his wife. "Tea, father," answered Mrs Bruce. "Come to worship. Robert!" "Ay, father." "Come to worship. Johnnie!" And so he went through the family roll-call, as if it were a part of some strange liturgy.
Yet, barely five minutes thereafter, Angela, who usually spent half an hour splashing in her tub, appeared full panoplied, apparently, at the head of the stairs upon her aunt's arrival, and was even now somewhere down the row, hobnobbing with Kate Sanders. That Lieutenant Blakely should have missed retreat roll-call was in itself no very serious matter.
It was the dawn of the morning on which the tomb was to be opened. Meg could not sleep; the overseer's shrill whistle for the roll-call of the workmen had banished her last hopes that a little sleep would come to her before the exciting day began. The clear whistle called the straggling figures together.
A short time before reaching Eccles they held roll-call, and each man was called according to his number in the section when they separated, only to fall the more certainly into the hands of the police, who were approaching from all sides. The number of the wounded must have been very considerable, but those only could be counted who were arrested.
Hasty plans for comfort and convenience are eagerly discussed till late into the night, and await only the dawn of another day for execution. Roll-call over and breakfast eaten, the work of the day commences with the preparation of comfortable sleeping places, varying according to the "material" on hand.
More, there was at least one man among my companions there who contrived, by devices which I never sought to fathom, to pass the immitigable outer gates themselves every day, attend to his business in the outer world for as many hours as might serve, returning quietly in time for last roll-call.
What have you done with them? Barrett unfolded his tale concisely. 'You see, he concluded, 'what a hole I'm in. I can't tell the Old Man anything about it, or I get booked for cutting roll-call, and going out of bounds. And then, while I'm waiting and wondering what to do, and all that, the thief, whoever he is, will most likely go off with the pots. What do you think I ought to do?
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