"We shall be short." "It wouldn't be fair," said Dick, boldly.
"Howling prig!" said Gosse, in disgust, "canting young hypocrite; you'll get it hot, I can tell you, if--" "Shut up!" shouted Dick, rounding on him with a fierceness which astonished himself.

It was a show to see the way in which Gosse collapsed under this thunderclap of righteous indignation.

He looked round at Dick out of the corners of his eyes, very much as a small dog contemplates the boot that has just helped him half-way across the road, and positively forgot to keep his own grimy hand raised aloft till the counting was finished.
"Pauncefote has 108 votes.

Now those who are in favour of Duffield ?" There was great excitement, and no little uproar, as the rival party made their show.

Cries of, "Cheat! both hands up!" rose from the shocked adherents of Pauncefote; and a good deal of quiet service, in holding the arms of weaklings down to their sides, was rendered on the frontier.