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A score of voices were heard . `` It is unanimously accepted , '' said she . `` I will now proceed to the reading of the second . `` Resolved , That , as a means of humbling and destroying the tyranny which the monster man exercises over the larger portion of the women of Wimbledon , six of the usurpers be converted into lamp-posts , and placed at the corners of the principal streets , with tin lanterns fixed upon their heads , to light the cause of philanthropy in its midnight struggles . '' -LRB- Sensation , and several brawny hands scratching uneasily at the apex of their craniums . -RRB- The secretary sat down ; the lady president arose . `` This is a very spirited as well as elegant resolve , '' said she , `` and can not fail of securing universal approbation .