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reach out to shove and push him; he staggers, sways, stumbles, sees and understands nothing, strikes out bravely at the whirling mass of people, but it bears up under his blows, and only pushes him on and on, further, until, bang !—and he flies as though shot out of a cannon’s mouth on to the stage.

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