Then he coolly rose, and ascended the platform.

His face was flushed, and his eyes uneasy; but otherwise impudence befriended him, and he stood there to all appearances neither humiliated nor dismayed.
"Gentlemen," he began; but a fresh storm arose, and drowned his voice.
The uproar continued till Mansfield called for order, and said-- "I think in ordinary decency you ought to treat everybody fairly on a day like this.

It will do you no harm, and it will be more worthy of Templeton." "Gentlemen," said Pledge, "thank you for being ordinarily decent, although it wouldn't break my heart if you didn't hear me.

It's not as easy as you may suppose to stand up single-handed against a school full of howling enemies.

It's easy for you to howl when everybody howls on your side.