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In a wonderfully short time everything was ready. Marcus Schouler resumed his coat, wiping his forehead, and remarking: "I tell you, I've been doing CHORES for MY board." "To der table!" commanded Mr. Sieppe. The company sat down with a great clatter, Trina at the foot, the dentist at the head, the others arranged themselves in haphazard fashion.
You've got to throw a man so's his shoulders touch. You got to give me another bout." "That's straight," put in Heise, "both his shoulders down at the same time. Try it again. You and Schouler have another try." McTeague was bewildered by so much simultaneous talk. He could not make out what it was all about. Could he have offended Marcus again? "What? What? Huh?
If the lukewarm, compromising temper of the past winter had caused him to feel any lurking anxious doubts as to how the crisis would be met, such illusive mists were now cleared away in a moment before the sweeping gale of patriotism. Schouler, Hist. of Mass. in the Civil War, i. 44-47.
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