` Up with your flag ! I 'll stand by and lend a hand if you want it . With you and Nan to lead the van , I think you wo n't need much help . ' ` You are a great comfort , Demi , and I 'll call on you in all emergencies ; for you are an honest boy , and do n't forget that you owe much to your mother and your sisters and your aunts , ' continued Nan . ' I do like men who come out frankly and own that they are not gods . How can we think them so when such awful mistakes are being made all the time by these great creatures ? See them sick , as I do , then you know them . ' ` Do n't hit us when we are down ; be merciful , and set us up to bless and believe in you evermore , ' pleaded Demi from behind the bars . ` We 'll be kind to you if you will be just to us . I do n't say generous , only just . I went to a suffrage debate in the Legislature last winter ; and of all the feeble , vulgar twaddle I ever heard , that was the worst ; and those men were our representatives . I blushed for them , and the wives and mothers . I want an intelligent man to represent me , if I ca n't do it myself , not a fool . ' ` Nan is on the stump . Now we shall catch it , ' cried Tom , putting up an umbrella to shield his unhappy head ; for Nan 's earnest voice was audible , and her indignant eye happened to rest on him as she spoke . ` Go on , go on ! I 'll take notes , and put in `` great applause '' liberally , ' added Demi , producing his ball-book and pencil , with his Jenkins air . Daisy pinched his nose through the bars , and the meeting was rather tumultuous for a moment , for Emil called : ` Avast , avast , here 's a squall to wind ` ard ' ; Tom applauded wildly ; Dan looked up as if the prospect of a fight , even with words , pleased him , and Nat went to support Demi , as his position seemed to be a good one . At this crisis , when everyone laughed and talked at once , Bess came floating through the upper hall and looked down like an angel of peace upon the noisy group below , as she asked , with wondering eyes and smiling lips : ` What is it ? ' ` An indignation meeting .
XXXXX and Alice are on the rampage , and we are at the bar to be tried for our lives .
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