] Hell! Law!
ALL--[Repeating the word after him as one with cynical mockery.]
Law! [The word has a brazen metallic quality as if their throats
were phonograph horns. It is followed by a chorus of hard, barking
laughter.]
LONG--[Feeling the ground slipping from under his feet--
desperately.] As voters and citizens we kin force the bloody
governments--
YANK--[With abysmal contempt.] Hell! Governments!
ALL--[Repeating the word after him as one with cynical mockery.]
Governments! [The word has a brazen metallic quality as if their
throats were phonograph horns. It is followed by a chorus of hard,
barking laughter.]
LONG--[Hysterically.] We're free and equal in the sight of God--
YANK--[With abysmal contempt.] Hell! God!
ALL--[Repeating the word after him as one with cynical mockery.]
God! [The word has a brazen metallic quality as if their throats
were phonograph horns. It is followed by a chorus of hard, barking
laughter.]
YANK--[Witheringly.] Aw, join de Salvation Army!
ALL--Sit down! Shut up! Damn fool! Sea-lawyer! [Long slinks back
out of sight.]
PADDY--[Continuing the trend of his thoughts as if he had never
been interrupted--bitterly.] And there she was standing behind us,
and the Second pointing at us like a man you'd hear in a circus
would be saying: In this cage is a queerer kind of baboon than
ever you'd find in darkest Africy.
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