19/22 You can't give such a blow with your fingers as you can with your fists, can you ?" Up went a score of fists. "We've the fists: we've the fists," was shouted. "I think you will observe that they are already quieter. They are reflecting on what it signifies, and will by-and-by quarrel as to the spelling of it. At any rate it occupies them." Cornelia laughed inwardly, and marked with pain that his own humour gave him no merriment. |