This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ... crowd to hear. "You've run the town too long and done nobody any good," he defied. Then he turned to the rest. "Shall I tell you all what he's been doing?" He was shaking his fist in Manning's face the while. "Shall I tell you? He has been in Tennant's pay to keep you still while the blacklegs are brought in." Without ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ... crowd to hear. "You've run the town too long and done nobody any good," he defied. Then he turned to the rest. "Shall I tell you all what he's been doing?" He was shaking his fist in Manning's face the while. "Shall I tell you? He has been in Tennant's pay to keep you still while the blacklegs are brought in." Without further parley Manning lifted him up by the collar of his coat, and with a warning to those below, dropped him down to the ground. Then he stood erect again and looked out over them. There were thousands already, crushed close in the fine rain. Women jostled and held their places with the men, their shawls and aprons often filled with stones and broken bricks. Manning did not doubt that the men had among them revolvers and knives. It was a formidable mob, in all the savagery of the half-awake early day. The warm, moist air reeked with the odor of soaked and foul clothing and with liquor fumes, and there occurred to Manning the disgusted thought that a pack of beasts would have been infinitely more admirable, more respect-inspiring, that the possible superiority of man above the animals is only to be measured by his possible debasement below them. His figure stood out large in the mist of the drizzle. And after a momentary delay and uncertainty the crowd laughed and applauded. They liked him better than Lockhart, and their admiration for sheer, confident strength, their love of comedy, had been touched. He spoke to them himself, undoing as much as he could the effect the other had produced. "What Lockhart has said about me," he briefly dismissed the charge against himself, "is not worth my denying. Unless you already believe it to be a lie, nothing I can say will make you." They cheered again, ...
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