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The Tables Turned - or, Nupkins Awakened. A Socialist Interlude by William Morris
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I knew he was jesting; but I thought that his jesting concealed very
serious earnest. He seemed to me a determined, cunning, and most
dangerous person.

_Mr. H_. I thank you, professor. [_Exit_ PRO. T.

_J. N_. Prisoner, do you want to re-examine the witnesses? What's that
noise outside? They ought to be arrested.

["_Marseillaise_" _again without, and tumult nearer_. FREEMAN _listens
intently, without heeding the_ JUDGE.

_J. N_. Prisoner, why don't you answer? Your insolence won't serve you
here, I can tell you.

_J. F_. I was listening, Judge; I thought I heard that echo again.

_J. N_. Echo again! What does the fellow mean? It's my belief you're
drunk, sir: that you have stimulated your courage by liquor.

_A Voice_. Look out for _your_ courage, old cockywax; you may have
something to try it presently!

_J. N_. Officer, arrest that pernicious foreigner.

[USHER _promenades once more_.

_J. N_. (_Aside_: I don't like it: I'm afraid there is something going to
happen.) (_To Court_) Mr. Hungary.

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