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In an instant all was confusion Everybody sprang to their feet--ladies

shrieked in chorus, gentlemen swore and drew their swords, and looked

to see if they ht not expect a whole army to drop from the sky upon

them, as they stood No other battalion, however, followed this forlorn

hope; and seeing it, the gentlerace and closed around

the uncere froht lips parted, and her brighter eyes dilating in

speechless wonder The bench, with the judge at their head, had followed

her exa, truth to

tell, as much startled by the sudden apparition as the fair sex The

said fair sex were still firing off little volleys of screa desperately to their cavaliers; and everything, in a word,

was in most admired disorder

Tam O'Shanter's cry, "Weel done, Cutty sark!" could not have produced

half such a coion" as the e these human revelers The only one who

seemed rather to enjoy it than otheras the prisoner, as

quietly and quicklyoff, when the malevolent and irrepressible

dwarf espied hi as a counter-irritant to

the other, he bounced fleetly over the table, and grabbed him in his