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E trembled with solemnity. He stretched forth his hands, slowly
repeating the words, "dead and rotten and forgotten," until his
wandering eyes came to rest on the young man's neck. Andrew drew back a
step and bowed silently, as he had seen many a father do at a
christening in the kirk at Wheens. "You will shortly," continued the
president, with a return to his ordinary manner, "hear an address on
female suffrage from one of the noblest women in the land. It will be
your part to listen. To-night you will both hear and see strange things.
Say nothing. Evince no surprise. Some members are irritable. Come!" Once
more he took Andrew by the hand, and led him into the meeting-room; and
still his eyes were fixed on the probationer's neck. There seemed to be
something about it that he liked. It was not then, with the committee
all around him, but long afterwards at Wheens, that Andrew was struck by
the bareness of the chambers. Without the president's presence they had
no character. The trifles were absent that are to a room what expression
is to the face. The tenant might have been a medical student who knew
that it was not worth while to unpack his boxes. The only ornament on
the walls was an elaborate sketch by a member, showing the arrangement
of the cellars beneath the premises of the Young Men's Christian
Association. There were a dozen men in the room, including the president
of the Birmingham branch association and two members who had just
returned from a visit to Edinburgh. These latter had already submitted
their report. The president introduced Andrew to the committee, but not
the committee to him. Several of them he recognized from the portraits
in the shop windows. They stood or sat in groups looking over a
probationer's thesis. It consisted of diagrams of machinery. Andrew did
not see the sketches, though they were handed round separately for
inspection, but he listened eagerly to the president's explanations.
"The first," said the president, "is a beautiful little instrument
worked by steam. Having placed his head on the velvet cushion D, the
subject can confidently await

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