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Chapter Seven.
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Strange to say, the anger of the Raturans was not assuaged1 by the rebuff which they received at that time. They took counsel again, and resolved to wait till the suspicions of the Mountain-men had been allayed3, and then attack them when off their guard.
Meanwhile Zeppa, who did not at all concern himself with these matters, took it into his head one day that he would teach his little favourite, Lippy, to sing. Being a religious man he naturally selected hymns5 as the foundation of his teaching. At first he found it rather up-hill work, for Lippy happened to be gifted with a strong sense of the ludicrous, so that when he took her on his knee—the day on which the idea occurred to him—opened his mouth, and gave forth6 the first notes of a hymn4 in a fine sonorous7 bass8 voice, the child gazed at him for a few moments in open-eyed wonder, and then burst into an uncontrollable fit of open-mouthed laughter.
Poor Zeppa! till that day, since his mental break-down, the idea of singing had never once occurred to him, and this reception of his first attempt to teach disconcerted him. He stopped abruptly9 and gazed at the child with a perplexed10 expression. This gaze was evidently regarded by Lippy as an additional touch of humour, for she went off into renewed explosions of delight and the lesson had to be given up for that time. Zeppa was gifted, however, with patient perseverance11 in a remarkable
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briefly
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blessing
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astonishment
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ruse
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promptly
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insanity
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maniac
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thoroughly
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injustice
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hurling
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mighty
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hindrance
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captivity
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