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The Chair fished again, and once more the familiar words began to fall
from its lips--"'You are far from being a bad man--'"
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Name! name! What's his name?"
'L. Ingoldsby Sargent.'"
Five elected! Pile up the Symbols! Go on, go on!"
'You are far from being a bad--'"
Name! name!"
'Nicholas Whitworth.'"
Hooray! hooray! it's a symbolical day!"
Somebody wailed in, and began to sing this rhyme (leaving out "it's") to
the lovely "Mikado" tune of "When a man's afraid of a beautiful maid;"
the audience joined in, with joy; then, just in time, somebody
contributed another line--
"And don't you this forget--"
The house roared it out. A third line was at once furnished--
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