Ramsey Milholland by Booth Tarkington
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He had begun to shriek; moisture fell from his brow and his mouth; the scandalized society was on its feet, nervously into groups. Evidently the meeting was about to disintegrate. "I'll have my _say_!" the frenzied Linski screamed. "You try to put up this capitalis' trick and work a fake to carry over this debate agains' Choimuny, but you can't work it on _me_, lemme tell you! I'll have my _say!_" The outraged chairman was wholly at a loss how to deal with the "unprecedented situation"--so he defined it, quite truthfully; and he continued to pound upon the desk, while other clamours began to rival Linski's; shouts of "Put him out!" "Order!" "Shut up, Freshman!" "Turn him over to the sophomores!" "This meeting is _adjourned!_" bellowed the chairman, and there was a thronging toward the doors, while the frothing Linski asseverated: "I'm a-gunna git my say, I tell you! I'll have my say! I'll have my _say!_" He had more than that, before the hour was over. A moment after he emerged from the building and came out, still hot, upon the cool, dark campus, he found himself the centre of a group of his own classmates whom he at first mistook for sophomores, such was their manner. ...As this group broke up, a few minutes later, a youth running to join it, scenting somewhat of interest, detained one of those who were departing. "What's up? What was that squealing?" "Oh, nothing. We just talked to that Linski. Nobody else touched him, |
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