debating

Very different this from the plain benches at the Debating Club, filled with the homely, sympathetic faces of friends and neighbors.

Sometimes she stood mute and motionless as a statue, looking towards Marseilles, at other times gazing on the sea, and debating as to whether it were not better to cast herself into the abyss of the ocean, and thus end her woes.

And her cousins are coming over from Newbridge in a big pung sleigh to go to the Debating Club concert at the hall tomorrow night.

“I’m sure the Debating Club is a most respectable affair,” pleaded Anne.