An audacious Radical swarmed up upon the pedestal and balanced the obnoxious notice on the marble arms of the professor.

Thus converted into a political partisan, the revered inventor of the kaleidoscope became the centre of a furious struggle, the vanquished politicians making the most desperate efforts to destroy the symbol of their opponents' victory, while the others offered an equally vigorous resistance to their attacks.

The struggle was still proceeding when Dimsdale removed his father, for it was impossible to say what form the riot might assume.
"What Goths! what barbarians!" cried the little doctor, as they walked down the Bridges.

"And this is my dream of refined quiet and studious repose!" "They are not always like that, sir," said his son apologetically.
"They were certainly a little jolly to-day." "A little jolly!" cried the doctor.

"You rogue, Tom.