14/21 Her soul still ached for her fallen queen. "It's a great pity that I did not know about this. I should have liked nothing better than to be down there when that usurper girl was standing on that throne, or rocking-chair, or whatever it was----" "Oh, my dear!" said Mrs.Chipperton. "It would never have done for you to have exposed your lung to such a scene of turmoil and confusion." "Bother my lung!" cried Mr.Chipperton, who was now growing quite excited. "I would never have stood tamely by, and witnessed such vile injustice----" "We didn't stand tamely by," said I."We ran wildly after the unjust one." "I would have stood up before that crowd," continued Mr.Chipperton, "and I would have told the people what I thought of them. |