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| He wades right in for a showdown, an' nails Billy outside, before everybody, an' reads the riot act. There is no stopping to read the riot act, no firing over the heads of the mob, in this case. You yourself, though you would give fifty pounds to Jansenius's emigration fund readily enough, would call for the police, the military, and the Riot Act, if the people came to Brandon Beeches and bade you turn out and work for your living with the rest. |
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